Nick the Geek

Genesis Featured Widget Amplified adds additional functionality to the Genesis Featured Posts Widget. Specifically it:
<ul>
<li>Supports Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Supports Custom Taxonomies</li>
<li>Exclude Term by ID field</li>
<li>Supports Pagination</li>
<li>Supports Meta Key Values</li>
<li>Supports Sorting by Meta Key</li>
<li>Multiple Hooks and Filters for adding additional content</li>
</ul>
This plugin requires the <a href="http://studiopress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Theme Framework</a> 
While the plugin will work on the HTML5 “Pro” themes, the HTML markup only supports the older XHTML themes at this time. It is not recommended for use on the new HTML5 themes.
Thanks to David Decker, this plugin is translation ready. German translation files included.
<h3>Special Thanks</h3>
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the folks at StudioPress, their themes make my life easier.
Gary Jones (aka GaryJ) provided guidance on several issues related to debugging and documentation

Genesis Featured Widget Amplified

Genesis Featured Posts with support for custom post types, taxonomies, and so much more

Constantin Boiangiu

CodeFlavors

Convert your current theme into a masonry style theme by simply using a shortcode or a widget. You will no longer be tied to a certain theme that implements masonry to get a good looking masonry layout.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="CodeFlavors Featured Posts - demo" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/174324022?dnt=1&app_id=122963" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write"></iframe>
CodeFlavors Featured Post allows you to feature any WordPress post type into posts and pages by using the shortcode implemented by the plugin. Besides the featured posts shortcode, the plugin implements a widget that does the exact same thing.
You can use this plugin to display any post type, be it image, regular post, page, WooCommerce product or whatever else.
To display featured posts into the front-end the plugin uses the templates it implements (by default, only 2 are available Fancy and Default) and also offers the possibility to create custom templates that can be used to display the featured posts.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Feature any post type;</li>
<li>Responsive options for displaying posts;</li>
<li>Plenty of options for choosing posts (post type, taxonomy, number of posts, skipped posts, template);</li>
<li>Compatible with Visual Composer;</li>
<li>Compatible with any WordPress theme;</li>
<li>Feature posts by using the shortcode or the widget;</li>
<li>TinyMCE editor interface for choosing featured posts.</li>
</ul>
Links:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/documents/wordpress-featured-post/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=cf_featured_post" title="CodeFlavors Featured Post for WordPress documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> on plugin usage and structure;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/codeflavors-forums/forum/codeflavors-featured-post/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=cf_featured_post" title="CodeFlavors Featured Post Forum" rel="nofollow ugc">Forum</a> (while we try to keep up with the forums here, please post any requests on our forums for a faster response);</li>
</ul>

CodeFlavors Featured Post

Featured Post Plugin for WordPress with custom post type support.

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