Feature A Page Widget

The Feature A Page Widget is perfect for for showcasing important site pages.

It allows webmasters to show a small summary and the page's featured image in the sidebar.

Perfect for showcasing portfolio items or other pages holding important content.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• New:
• Updated widget form design matches WordPress 3.8 admin and replaces all but one image with Dashicons.
• Options for hiding Title, Image, and Excerpt and adding "Read More" link.
• Features Posts by default! (And new filter for adding other post types!)
• Changes to templates for great flexibility. (Old templates will partially still work but support may be removed in future versions.)
• Filters for adding post types, modifying "Read More" link, adding custom layouts, and more!
• Introduce plugin compatibility fixes for Jetpack, DiggDigg, and podPress.
• Various small CSS changes to widget layouts for [hopefully] improved consistency.
• Docblock commenting throughout plugin for better in-code documentation.
• Change:
• Rename widget title to "Feature a Page" in admin.
• Fix:
• Remove /assets/ folder from plugin package for faster downloads.
• Drop hAtom support because it was broken without author and date. (Would you like to see schema.org support? Let me know.)

What is new in version 2.0.2:

• New:
• Updated widget form design matches WordPress 3.8 admin and replaces all but one image with Dashicons.
• Options for hiding Title, Image, and Excerpt and adding "Read More" link.
• Features Posts by default! (And new filter for adding other post types!)
• Changes to templates for great flexibility. (Old templates will partially still work but support may be removed in future versions.)
• Filters for adding post types, modifying "Read More" link, adding custom layouts, and more!
• Introduce plugin compatibility fixes for Jetpack, DiggDigg, and podPress.
• Various small CSS changes to widget layouts for [hopefully] improved consistency.
• Docblock commenting throughout plugin for better in-code documentation.
• Change:
• Rename widget title to "Feature a Page" in admin.
• Fix:
• Remove /assets/ folder from plugin package for faster downloads.
• Drop hAtom support because it was broken without author and date. (Would you like to see schema.org support? Let me know.)

What is new in version 1.2.5:

• Modifications to widget HTML.

What is new in version 1.2.2:

• Apply the_excerpt and get_the_excerpt filters to excerpt in widget.
• First-pass at qTranslate support.
• Tested with Advanced Excerpt plugin.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3 or higher