News Display is a powerful widget that pulls your posts from a category or categories and can display them in several different styles. If you assign a featured image in the post editor and choose to show it in the widget, it will show up. The excerpt text will show up if you've assigned it in the post editor.
Features:
- Multiple Layout Options
- Show or Hide Featured Images
- Show or Hide Excerpt Text
- Unlimited copies of the widget per page
- Set how many posts are to be shown
- Select one or multiple categories to pull posts from
- Choose to enable linked titles
- Many more features
Behind Post:
If you choose the "behind post" layout it will show as follows. You can notice the read more and excerpt text was set to show on this example:
Left/Right of Post:
If you choose the "left or right of post" layout it will show as follows. You can notice the read more was also hidden on this example:
Sub Posts:
If you choose the "beneath post" layout the subsequent images after the 1st will show as the screenshot below shows. You can notice the excerpt text and read more were also hidden on this example: