Constantin Boiangiu

CodeFlavors

Convert your current theme into a masonry style theme by simply using a shortcode or a widget. You will no longer be tied to a certain theme that implements masonry to get a good looking masonry layout.
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CodeFlavors Featured Post allows you to feature any WordPress post type into posts and pages by using the shortcode implemented by the plugin. Besides the featured posts shortcode, the plugin implements a widget that does the exact same thing.
You can use this plugin to display any post type, be it image, regular post, page, WooCommerce product or whatever else.
To display featured posts into the front-end the plugin uses the templates it implements (by default, only 2 are available Fancy and Default) and also offers the possibility to create custom templates that can be used to display the featured posts.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Feature any post type;</li>
<li>Responsive options for displaying posts;</li>
<li>Plenty of options for choosing posts (post type, taxonomy, number of posts, skipped posts, template);</li>
<li>Compatible with Visual Composer;</li>
<li>Compatible with any WordPress theme;</li>
<li>Feature posts by using the shortcode or the widget;</li>
<li>TinyMCE editor interface for choosing featured posts.</li>
</ul>
Links:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/documents/wordpress-featured-post/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=cf_featured_post" title="CodeFlavors Featured Post for WordPress documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> on plugin usage and structure;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/codeflavors-forums/forum/codeflavors-featured-post/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=cf_featured_post" title="CodeFlavors Featured Post Forum" rel="nofollow ugc">Forum</a> (while we try to keep up with the forums here, please post any requests on our forums for a faster response);</li>
</ul>

CodeFlavors Featured Post

Featured Post Plugin for WordPress with custom post type support.

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The Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress widget. You can decide, whether or not the post thumbnail is displayed, 
whether the post title, post info, meta, content etc are above or beneath the thumbnail and a couple of more things. And of course, you can style 
the widget individually. You can filter the content by category, post tags, taxonomy. Also you can include/exclude specific terms or 
post/page specific items by ID(s). And many more features are integrated in this plugin.
Widget Features:
<ol>
<li>Supporting Post, page</li>
<li>Supporting Filter by Category, Tag</li>
<li>Include/Exclude categories/tags by ID field</li>
<li>Include/Exclude post/page items by ID field</li>
<li>Turn on or Off Post title, thumbnail, post info, content etc</li>
<li>Order by Date, ID, comment count, random</li>
<li>Supporting offset field</li>
<li>4 Type Content option
<ul>
<li>Full Content </li>
<li>Excerpt </li>
<li>Content by Character Limit </li>
<li>No Content</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Multiple Hooks and Filters for adding additional content</li>
<li>Select featured image size from drop down</li>
<li>Select Image alignment and Image position</li>
</ol>
Shortcodes Syntax for Post Info & Meta
<ul>
<li>
Post Date
[post_date after=”” before=”” label=”” format=”DATE FORMAT”]
</li>
<li>
Post Time
[post_time after=”” before=”” label=”” format=”TIME FORMAT”]
</li>
<li>
Post Author Name
[post_author after=”” before=””]
</li>
<li>
Post Author Name with Author Site link
[post_author_link after=”” before=””]
</li>
<li>
Post Author Name with Author Archive link
[post_author_posts_link after=”” before=””]
</li>
<li>
Post Comments Number
[post_comments after=”” before=”” more=’% Comments’ one=’1 Comment’ zero=’Leave a Comment’]
</li>
<li>
Post Tags
[post_tags after=”” before=”Tagged With” sep=’, ‘]
</li>
<li>
Post Categories
[post_categories after=”” before=”Filed In” sep=’, ‘]
</li>
</ul>
How it is working
Here is the some examples:
<ol>
<li><a href="http://pwdtechnology.com/grid-view-template-twenty-fourteen-theme-using-efcwp-plugin/" title="3 Columns Grid Style" rel="nofollow ugc">3 Columns Grid Style</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pwdtechnology.com/creating-extra-widget-area-home-page-twenty-fourteen-theme/" title="Featured Content on Home Page" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured Content on Home Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pwdtechnology.com/displaying-custom-post-type-content-using-efcwp-plugin/" title="Custom Post Type Demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Post Type Demo</a></li>
</ol>
This plugin is using lot of hooks and filters. Here is the list of those Hooks & Filters
Hooks
<ul>
<li>efwp_before_loop</li>
<li>efwp_before_featured_post_content</li>
<li>efwp_featured_post_content</li>
<li>efwp_after_featured_post_content</li>
<li>efwp_inside_loop</li>
<li>efwp_after_loop</li>
</ul>
Filters
<ul>
<li>post_content_limit_allowedtags</li>
<li>get_the_efwp_post_content_limit</li>
<li>the_efwp_post_content_limit</li>
<li>efwp_do_post_meta</li>
<li>efwp_do_post_info</li>
<li>efwp_post_date_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_time_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_author_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_author_link_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_author_posts_link_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_comments_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_tags_shortcode</li>
<li>efwp_post_categories_shortcode</li>
</ul>
PRO Version have following features:
<ol>
<li>Supporting Post, page, custom post type</li>
<li>Supporting Taxonomies</li>
<li>Added Stylesheet</li>
<li>Supporting Grid Style</li>
<li>Pagination for Post Listings</li>
</ol>
Any suggestion highly appreciable.

Extended Featured Widget

Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress plugin that helps you can organize your post/page content beautifully.

CodeFlavors Featured Post vs Extended Featured Widget