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Let’s you select a specific category for featured posts, and manage those selections on the WordPress dashboard.
Most WordPress themes have you manage featured posts by selecting a “Featured” or “Top News” category for your special articles. This method has worked pretty well for both me and others. It’s only downfall is that you must go to edit that post in order to “feature” or “unfeature” it. Well I’m putting an end to that. With this plugin, you can select which posts get featured right on the dashboard.
To put it simply: You can manage categories from the WordPress Dashboard.

Featured Post Manager

Let's you select a specific category for featured posts, and manage those selections on the WordPress dashboard.

Phil Ewels

This plugin creates a Widget to display a featurette with a super-sized glyphicon, a title, content or latest posts and a link. The output requires <a href="http://www.getbootstrap.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter Bootstrap</a> to display properly.
The plugin assumes that you’re already using Bootstrap, so you need to load the Bootstrap CSS separately.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://getbootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Download Twitter Bootstrap</a></li>
<li><a href="http://320press.com/wpbs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bootstrap WordPress Theme</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bootstrap CDN</a> (hotlink CSS and javascript files)</li>
</ul>
If you’d like to contribute to this plugin, you can find it <a href="https://github.com/tallphil/bootstrap-feature-widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">hosted on GitHub</a>.

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