nickohrn

Quickly and easily mark any content that has an editing UI in the WordPress administrative section as featured. This plugin 
also provides a template tag that you can use to display certain markup or styles for featured content and a query 
variable that allows you to query for featured (or non-featured) content.

Easy Featured Content

This plugin allows you to mark content as featured and use the designation in your queries and via a template tag.

tierrainnovation

The Tierra Billboard Manager plugin for WordPress offers a single, customizable “billboard panel” through which publishers can present images, animations, audio and video files to tout content they wish to bring to their visitors’ attention. An administration panel allows content creators to create multiple playlists with custom presentation styles for use in posts and page templates, and a simple menu and control panel allow visitors to browse each billboard within a rotating playlist. Each asset can be linked to any URL, whether its within the current blog or an external Web site.
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<li>Embed single/multiple billboard assets on a post page or template</li>
<li>Embed single/multiple billboard playlist(s) on a post page or template</li>
</ol>
We provide customizable short code that can be pasted into any page / post, as well as code to embed into your template. For example code and samples, visit our <a href="http://tierra-innovation.com/wordpress-cms/plugins/billboard-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Billboard Manager</a> page.

Tierra's Billboard Manager

The Tierra Billboard Manager plugin for WordPress offers a single, customizable "billboard panel" through which publishers can present image …

Easy Featured Content vs Tierra's Billboard Manager