Jeremy Selph

When working on WordPress themes, we tend to use a lot of custom post types. This gives the end- user custom little sections to manage content in. Often enough we see the need to be able to feature posts or custom posts of custom post types (cpts).
This can be accomplished by using a bunch of different Featured Posts Plugins. And we probably have used all of them over the years. To date we have yet to find one that didn’t conflict or break somehting in our WordPress themes. So we created our own, to be specifc we created our own to be easily used with Posts, Custom Posts, and with the Simple Page ordering plugin that we install on every WordPress Theme that we develop.
To use:
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<li>Download the feature-posts-and-custom-posts.zip file to your computer.</li>
<li>Unzip the file.</li>
<li>Upload the feature-posts-and-custom-posts folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.</li>
<li>In your theme and in the template you need the featured functionality uses a custom query like this query_posts("post_type=professionals&posts_per_page=-1&meta_key=_jsFeaturedPost&meta_value=yes"); to grad all of the featured posts.</li>
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For Plugin and Theme development requets email us at info@reactivedevelopment.net or go here http://www.reactivedevelopment.net/. If you have questions or requests for this plugin go here https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-posts-custom-posts, for quick and paid support message us here at http://www.reactivedevelopment.net/contact/send-message/.
New in Version 2.0 
1. New js_featured_is_post_featured( postID[int] ) function 
2. short cut is_post_featured( userID[int] ) function 
3. js_featured_return_all_featured() function that returns an array of featured posts 
4. New widget added 
5. Post class “jsFeatured” on archive templates added if the post is featured 
6. New shortcode [jsFeaturedPosts posts_per_page=”1″ wrap_before=”
<ul>” wrap_after=”</ul>
” link_before=”
<li>” link_after=”</li>
” link_atts=”rel=’bookmark'” link_title=”Link to”]

Featured Posts and Custom Posts

Allows the user to feature posts and custom posts. When a post is featured it gets the post metta _jsFeaturedPost.

Stephen AfamO

This plugin allows you to use any HTML or PHP file as the template for any page or post.
Simply upload the file and select it. 
You can upload custom js and css files into the media library and link to them from the HTML file.
Options:
<ul>
<li>Overwrite All: You overwrite the entire theme and use your custom file</li>
<li>Overwrite Content: Keeps the header, footer, sidebar, e.t.c. Simply overwrites the body of the page or post</li>
<li>Above Content: Your custom content is simply added to the top of the page content</li>
<li>Below Content: You custom content is placed just beneath the page content.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Adding support for custom post types</h4>
By default the pulugin works with pages and posts, however, go to the settings to enable it on any other registered post type.
use the <code>hppp_post_types</code> filter to add more post types.
Like this:
<pre><code> public function post_type_modify ($post_types) {
 $post_types[] = 'custom_post_type';
 return $post_types;
 }

 add_filter( 'hppp_post_types', 'post_type_modify' );
</code></pre>

Custom HTML/PHP Post Templates

I use this on a couple sites I own and it works wonderfully.
I hope you can find it useful. 

Works like a charm

Use your HTML or PHP files for any page or post.

Featured Posts and Custom Posts vs Custom HTML/PHP Post Templates