Abbas S

This plugin helps to create a widget and shortcode to create featured blogs.
Following are the things done
A settings page created for featured. 
You can enter the blog id in the blog id: text box in the settings page and click on get blog details button . 
This will fetch( by AJAX ) get the blog name , blog link , and blog Avatar ( based on the avatars plugin ). 
It will also add two buttons 
 Add this blog -> Which will add this blog to the featured blog list 
Can -> it will not add the blog to the featured blog list. 
Then saving the settings will save it. The settings are saved different for each blog . 
Then the user can use the widget as follows . 
Drag the widget on a widgetize area. 
Enter the blogids in the widget , then those blogs will be used as featured blogs. 
If nothing is entered in the bloglist the blog list from the settings will be taken. 
The user can use the short code as follows
The user can specify the blog list in short code argument. For e.g:- [multisite_featured_blogs blogids=”3,2″].The those blogs will be displayed in the featured blog list. 
If the user passes no argument then in case the featured blog list will be taken from the settings. For e.g:- [multisite_featured_blogs]
This plugin was done as a part of some work done for http://premium.wpmudev.org/ , but was later not released. 
Thanks for all the help for this plugin from WPMU Dev

Multisite Featured Blog

This plugin helps to create a widget and shortcode to create featured blogs

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PageOne is a platform for creating blog posts, images, meta descriptions, and focus key phrases.
PageOne gives you the ability to create blogs with ease while also creating images for those blog posts. Once you have that created you can move over to meta description and focus key phrase and let our software create that for you to. All you need to do is give it some keywords or find the page you want to crawl and sit back and let us do all the heavy lifting.
Features:
<ol>
<li>Create Blog posts with just a few keywords or use our keyword research tool to add keywords to make blogging easier</li>
<li>When creating a blog, have the option to generate an image, we currently offer 4 options for types of images, or you can choose not to make one for that post and use your own.</li>
<li>Generate meta descriptions and focus key phrases for Yoast SEO by just selecting the post that you want to crawl.</li>
<li>Look for similar keywords for your website with our keyword research tool, allowing you to save keywords for future use.</li>
<li>Make images to use anywhere on your site, with a just a sentence. Wait for our tool to generate it for you and in a few minutes, you can use the image on any page you want.</li>
<li>Track your websites rankings easily with our rank tracking tool, just connect your Google account and start tracking your websites performance.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Free Version</h3>
With the free version you can go into the settings of our plugin and click the generate license button to create a free license to use PageOne, if you want to upgrade to a paid license, you will 
be given a brand-new license key and access token to use.
Free Version Features:
<ol>
<li>Create 3 blog posts a month, each with an image if you choose.</li>
<li>Crawl 3 pages to generate a meta description and focus key phrases for Yoast.</li>
<li>Generate up to 3 images a month to use anywhere on your site.</li>
<li>PageOne branding on the end of blogs</li>
</ol>
<h3>Paid Versions</h3>
PageOne Individual Features:
<ol>
<li>Create 16 blog posts a month, each with an image if you choose.</li>
<li>Crawl 20 pages to generate a meta description and focus key phrases for Yoast.</li>
<li>Generate up to 16 images a month to use anywhere on your site.</li>
<li>Find keywords Similar to keywords you want to write blogs for and save up to 125 keywords and search 150 times a day</li>
<li>See saved keywords on blog generation to make adding keywords easier and faster.</li>
<li>Rank tracking up to 125 keywords</li>
<li>Business Hour Phone & Email Support</li>
<li>Updates to all new features</li>
<li>No PageOne branding</li>
</ol>
PageOne Business Features:
<ol>
<li>Create 25 blog posts a month, each with an image if you choose.</li>
<li>Crawl 40 pages to generate a meta description and focus key phrases for Yoast.</li>
<li>Generate up to 25 images a month to use anywhere on your site.</li>
<li>Find keywords Similar to keywords you want to write blogs for and save up to 150 keywords and search 300 times a day</li>
<li>See saved keywords on blog generation to make adding keywords easier and faster.</li>
<li>Rank tracking up to 150 keywords</li>
<li>Business Hour Phone & Email Support</li>
<li>Updates to all new features</li>
<li>No PageOne branding</li>
</ol>
PageOne Enterprise Features:
<ol>
<li>Create 35 blog posts a month, each with an image if you choose.</li>
<li>Crawl 60 pages to generate a meta description and focus key phrases for Yoast.</li>
<li>Generate up to 35 images a month to use anywhere on your site.</li>
<li>Find keywords Similar300 to keywords you want to write blogs for and save up to 300 keywords and search 900 times a day</li>
<li>See saved keywords on blog generation to make adding keywords easier and faster.</li>
<li>Rank tracking up to 300 keywords</li>
<li>Business Hour Phone & Email Support</li>
<li>Updates to all new features</li>
<li>No PageOne branding</li>
</ol>

PageOne

PageOne is a platform for creating blog posts, images, meta descriptions, and focus key phrases. PageOne also offers keyword research.

Multisite Featured Blog vs PageOne