Nick the Geek

Genesis Featured Widget Amplified adds additional functionality to the Genesis Featured Posts Widget. Specifically it:
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<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>
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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

Sovit Tamrakar

Ghanshyam Khanal

Plugin for featured wordpress posts. This is a cool plugin that makes it easier to mark posts as featured posts (not using specific categories) and simple markup to show theme from your theme file.
Add <code><?php query_posts($query_string."&featured=yes"); ?></code> before the post loop starts and manage the featured posts from the post edit list.
Now added widget for listing featured post in sidebar widgets with custom number of post.
Supports Custom Post Type
Visit us on <a href="https://github.com/ssovit/featured-post" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> to support and donate

Featured Post

I love this plugin. It's simple, small and easy to modify. Best of all, it has a simple interface for end-users.

NOTE: You may wish to download the plugin from the GitHub link in the description. This one is at version 3.2.1 but the GitHub one is at version 3.5. Works great on WordPress 4.6.1!

Genesis Featured Widget Amplified vs Featured Post