Title: Use in a widget for featured posts?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Use in a widget for featured posts?

 *  Resolved [styzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/styzer/)
 * (@styzer)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-in-a-widget/)
 * Hi, very interested in your plugin. Here is what I’m trying to solve:
 * 1- I need to show “featured posts” that I can manually assign. NOT an automatic
   list from WP filters, but I want to be able to decide which posts would show 
   up.
 * 2- And can it show an excerpt I can create myself?
 * 3- I don’t have featured images, but would like to have an icon that says NEW
   on the left of the post.
 * 4- The “slider” would only be text, and extend the same width as the wrap width.
 * 5- Can I have two or more instances of the slider on the same page?
 * 6- I also find the subscription model to be confusing and very unappealing. If
   I buy a business subscription, I can use the slider for 5 domains, BUT I have
   to download the plugin 5 times within 6 months, and ask for support within that
   6 months? If I buy a Lifetime subscription, I can download the plugin anytime,
   upgrade at any time, but don’t have support included forever – I have to pay 
   $10 extra every time I download it to use on a new site? This doesn’t make much
   sense to me, sorry… Am I understanding correctly?
 * Thanks!
 * Andre
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-slider-2/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-slider-2/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Nextendweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextendweb/)
 * (@nextendweb)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-in-a-widget/#post-5430309)
 * Hi Andre,
 * 1, With this version it’s not possible to add a concrete post, but in the next
   version it will be available.
    2, I don’t really understand how you would like
   to use it please describe it to me. 3, Would you like to add a new slider feature
   into the backend menu? 4, Yes it works the only problem can be if you have a 
   ton of text because in this case you should set a smaller font size for mobile
   devices. 5, Yes just simply past the shortcodes into the page. 6, Please drop
   me an email to [support@nextendweb.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-in-a-widget/support@nextendweb.com?output_format=md)
   and I will explain our packages but on this forum it is prohibited.
 * Also if you have any other question or problem then feel free to ask me I will
   help. 🙂

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