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Sidebar widget that shows the top post from a particular category plus its thumbnail. The excerpt from the post can be overridden.

Version History

• 0.2
  • removes the dependency on the excerpt reloaded plugin
  • fixes the "more" tag which used to disappear when you overrode the excerpt
• 0.3
  • changes the category selector to a drop-down list in the admin
  • is now a multi-widget—allows for multiple instance of the widget in a sidebar showing top posts from different categories