The Page in Widget widget lets you display a page content inside a widget. This way you have more control how the content is displayed, and it's much easier than hacking your own HTML.

The output is filtered through the_content-filter which means that paragraph tags are added, just as any other post or page.

1.3

• New author: airspray. Big thanks to original author carlfredrik.hero
• Added support for WordPress 4.5

1.2

• Added support for WPML translation (thanks to altert)

1.1.1

• Added missing echo $before_widget;

1.1

• The plugin now consider the <!--more--> tag
• Added option to show/hide the more link
• Added proper filtering to output

1.0

• Initial release

1. Upload the zipfile to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Extract and remove it
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Drag the new widget to desired sidebar, choose a title for the widget and select the appropriate page.