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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.

Trân Minh-Quân

This plugin is destined to intermediate users.
It helps you find image that is attached to a post in this priority: – Custom field (name can be one of these: img, image, thumbnail) – Uploaded/Attached image
NOTE 
If you have allow_url_fopen you can get image from an URL Path for Custom Field to your uploaded files is: /year/month/image or /image (depends on your settings for upload directory)
Custom fields use these sets * (img, img_title, img_alt, img_class) -> CSS: img-[img_class] * (image, image_title, image_alt, image_class) -> CSS: image-[image_class] * (thumbnail, thumbnail_title, thumbnail_alt, thumbnail_class) -> CSS: thumbnail-[image_class] * The value of img_class or image_class or thumbnail_class is case non-sensitve (Ex: CSSClass will be cssclass) * case sensitive and non-permutable
Example
To be used best in the Loop caro_the_image($post->ID); shows the custom-size image. caro_get_the_image($post->ID); returns the custom-size image HTML code. caro_the_image_url($post->ID); shows the URL of the custom-size image. caro_get_the_image_url($post->ID); returns the URL of the custom-size image.

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