Put featured posts in the highlight by giving them different stylings in different instances of the widget.
As of April 2026, Special Teaser Widget is a WordPress post plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 3.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
Do you want to put a certain post in the focus? The Special Teaser Widget goes beyond other featured post widgets. The widget won’t be active, if the site admin hasn’t designed at least one style for the widget.
Define the look of the widget container, title container and the text. Style the links and pictures for as many widget models as you need. The changes to the different styles are shown with a dummy on the admin page of the plugin. Give your style a name and save it.
When using the widget in the widget areas of your theme, you first choose one of the styles, than you choose a post, a backup post (that will be visible when a single post page shows the featured post) and define whether or not, you want to show a post thumbnail.
If you don’t want to fall back to the…
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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