Aaron D. Campbell

Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or 
pages. You can choose which posts or pages are featured by simply checking a 
checkbox on the write posts/page screen. The plugin uses the new post thumbnail 
functionality added in WordPress 2.9.
Requires PHP5.

Featured Content Showcase

Used to create a customizable rotating slideshow highlighting certain posts or pages.  Uses jQuery, which comes with WordPress (no conflicts).

thapa.laxman

<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
allows administrator and editor an option to set posts, pages & custom posts as a featured posts very easily. Posts, pages & custom posts can be set as featured posts using a checkbox on the posts list page or on the edit page of the post. Please see screenshots to be more clear.
<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
also adds a widget that will list the recent featured posts. This is similar to the default recent posts widget except this widget displays recent featured posts instead. The template for the Featured Posts Pro Widget can be customized with your theme.
<h3>How to use in the theme</h3>
You can to get the featured posts, you need to make a custom query as follows
<h3>sample code to get the featured posts with orders</h3>
`$args = array( 
 ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, 
 ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, 
 ‘no_found_rows’ => true, 
 ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, 
 ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, 
 ‘meta_query’ => array( 
 array( 
 ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ 
 ), 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’ 
 ), 
 ), 
 array( 
 ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, 
 ‘key’ => ‘is_post_featured’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘=’, 
 ‘value’ => 1 
 ) 
 ), 
 ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, 
 ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, 
 ) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );<code><h3>sample code to get the featured posts without order</h3></code>$args = array( 
 ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, 
 ‘no_found_rows’ => true, 
 ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, 
 ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, 
 ‘meta_key’ => ‘is_post_featured’ //this is the meta key used for the featured posts 
) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`
or if you simple want tp
<h3>How to customize the widget</h3>
You can customize the widget template as follows: 
1. create a folder ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ inside your theme folder 
2. create two php files named as ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ & ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ in the ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ folder you just created 
3. template file ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ will be used to render the widget when widget size is selected as large & similarly ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ is for small widget size 
3. copy and paste the content from plugin_fold er > featured-posts-pro > public > partials > featured_posts_pro-widget.php in the above two files 
4. make the layout changes as you wish.

Featured Posts Pro

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This plugin gives Administrator/Editor an easy option to mark posts, pages & custom posts as featured posts and provides a widget to list the rece …

Featured Content Showcase vs Featured Posts Pro