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<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 …

Anoop Ranawat

Pratik Jain

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Ketan Patel

Piyush Patel

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✅ Now that you have your website ready why don’t you download and try out this Featured Post Grid to give it better functionality.
Download Now and display multiple Featured Post grids using shortcodes with categories. Featured Posts allows you to add featured posts to your blog’s website via shortcode in pages and/or posts. This plugin makes it easier to mark posts as featured posts from post list OR from post inner section.
Download Now this featured posts because It is proven that Featured Posts grid have been a powerful tool to present your content in a very neat manner with the help of fancy grid and customized designs.
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Your customer might like the professional and fancy vibe of your site with Featured Post grid
✅ This plugin displays your featured post using :
<ul>
<li>Featured Grid (1 design)</li>
<li>Featured Gridbox (1 design)</li>
<li>Widget Featured List (1 design)</li>
</ul>
Download Now it today and explore all the features.
Also added Gutenberg block support.
<h4>✅ Here is the plugin shortcode example</h4>
Featured Grid
<pre><code>[fpc_post_grid]
</code></pre>
Featured Gridbox
<pre><code>[fpc_post_block]
</code></pre>
To display only featured grid 4 post:
<pre><code>[fpc_post_grid limit="4"]
</code></pre>
Where limit define the number of posts to display. You can use same parameter with gridbox shortcode.
If you want to display Featured grid by category then use this short code:
<pre><code>[fpc_post_grid category="category_ID"]
</code></pre>
You can use same parameter with Gridbox shortcode.
<h4>✅ Here is Template code</h4>
<pre><code><?php echo do_shortcode('[fpc_post_grid]'); ?> 
<?php echo do_shortcode('[fpc_post_block]'); ?> 
</code></pre>
<h4>✅ Use Following Featured Grid parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[fpc_post_grid]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Limit : [fpc_post_grid limit=”10″] (Display latest 10 featured post).</li>
<li>Grid : [fpc_post_grid grid=”3″] (Display post in grid3. You can use grid:1,2,3,4).</li>
<li>Show_author : [fpc_post_grid show_author=”true”] (Display featured post author OR not. By default value is “true”. Values are “true” OR “false” )</li>
<li>Category : [fpc_post_grid category=”category_id”] (Display featured post categories wise).</li>
<li>Show_category_name : [fpc_post_grid show_category_name=”true” ] (Display featured post category name OR not. By default value is “true”. Options are “true OR false”).</li>
<li>Show_date : [fpc_post_grid show_date=”false”] (Display featured post date OR not. By default value is “true”. Options are “true OR false”)</li>
<li>Order : [fpc_post_grid order=”DESC”] (Controls featured post order. Values are “ASC” OR “DESC”.)</li>
<li>Orderby : [fpc_post_grid orderby=”post_date”] (Display featured post in your order. Values are “post_date”, “modified”, “title”, “name” (Post Slug), “ID”, “rand”, “menu_order”, “comment_count”)</li>
<li>Image Height : [fpc_post_grid image_height=”500″] (Control featured post image height.)</li>
<li>extra_class : [fpc_post_grid extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization ).</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Use Following Featured Gridbox parameters with shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[fpc_post_block]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>Limit : [fpc_post_block limit=”10″] (Display latest 10 featured post).</li>
<li>Show_author : [fpc_post_block show_author=”true”] (Display featured post author OR not. By default value is “true”. Values are “true” OR “false” )</li>
<li>Category : [fpc_post_block category=”category_id”] (Display featured post categories wise).</li>
<li>Show_category_name : [fpc_post_block show_category_name=”true” ] (Display featured post category name OR not. By default value is “true”. Options are “true OR false”).</li>
<li>Show_date : [fpc_post_block show_date=”false”] (Display featured post date OR not. By default value is “true”. Options are “true OR false”)</li>
<li>Order : [fpc_post_block order=”DESC”] (Controls featured post order. Values are “ASC” OR “DESC”.)</li>
<li>Orderby : [fpc_post_block orderby=”post_date”] (Display featured post in your order. Values are “post_date”, “modified”, “title”, “name” (Post Slug), “ID”, “rand”, “menu_order”, “comment_count”)</li>
<li>Image Height : [fpc_post_block image_height=”500″] (Control featured post image height.)</li>
<li>extra_class : [fpc_post_block extra_class=””] (Enter extra CSS class for design customization ).</li>
</ul>
✅ Checkout demo for better understanding
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✅ Essential Plugin Bundle Deal
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<h4>✅ Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Gutenberg block support.</li>
<li>Featured Grid</li>
<li>Featured Gridbox</li>
<li>Featured Post Widget</li>
<li>Easy to add.</li>
<li>Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block. </li>
<li>Elementor, Beaver and SiteOrigin Page Builder Native Support (New).</li>
<li>Divi Page Builder Native Support (New).</li>
<li>Fusion Page Builder (Avada) Native Support (New).</li>
<li>Fully responsive. Scales with its container.</li>
<li>100% Multi Language.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy & Policy</h4>
<ul>
<li>We have also opt-in e-mail selection , once you download the plugin , so that we can inform you and nurture you about products and its features.</li>
</ul>

Featured Post Creative

Plugin is good but I didn't find a way to use in custom content types

Plugin is good but do not support custom content types

Perfect!

Display Featured post on your website with 2 shortcode and 1 widget. Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block.

Featured Posts Pro vs Featured Post Creative