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=”
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<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.

Jabawack

Simple Custom Posts per Page (SCPP) allows to configure the number of posts displayed for every custom post registered in WordPress.
See <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-custom-posts-per-page/screenshots/" rel="ugc">Screenshots</a> to known why it is called “Simple”.
In your Readme page in Setting tab of WordPress, it adds an option for every post type.
Disable Plugin in Template: 
You can disable plugin filters in your template whenever you want. Maybe you need a query with a different number of custom posts per page for a specific post type. 
Using this code before your query, the filter plugin will be disabled for a specific post type:
<pre><code><?php $GLOBALS['ado_cspp_disable']="YOUR_TYPE"; ?>
</code></pre>
With this code, you can use your personalized query for your loop.
More: 
You can find more informations in the official <a href="http://www.adostudio.it/blog/simple-custom-posts-per-page-397/" rel="nofollow ugc">Post</a> on my Blog.

Simple Custom Posts per Page

This plugin allows to configure the number of posts displayed for every custom post registered.

Featured Posts and Custom Posts vs Simple Custom Posts per Page