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Simple Featured Posts is a pratical widget that allows you to show a post list with thumbnails ordered by random or recent posts. You can also choose post's categories and how many posts you want to show. This widget show the first image found in the post as thumbnail or thumbnail image of posts if supported by template.

Features

• You can show a thumbnail image.
• Choice the number of posts to show.
• Posts list ordered by random or date.
• Choose or exclude categories from posts list.
• TimThumb support for a perfect resize.

Appearence

The appearance is essential to allow people who use it to customize their own template's CSS easily, without clashing too much with the preset styles of widget.