Nilambar Sharma

<h3>NS Featured Posts</h3>
This plugin adds checkboxes for each list item. You can easily check/uncheck the Featured flag. Checking the Featured will set the meta value yes for meta key _is_ns_featured_post. You can choose which post types you want Featured functionality from plugin settings.
<h4>Using in theme</h4>
This plugin only sets/unsets the meta key for assigned posts. You need to implement it in your theme to get Featured functionality.
Example:
<pre><code>$query = new WP_Query( array( 'meta_key' => '_is_ns_featured_post', 'meta_value' => 'yes' ) );
</code></pre>
This will fetch the list of posts that are checked as Featured.
Want to see how this can be used in a Page Template? 
<a href="https://gist.github.com/ernilambar/ad31b89b459e954fc950" rel="nofollow ugc">Click this link to see an example</a>

NS Featured Posts

A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.

Kapil Chugh

mediology

This allows you to mark the selected post as featured post and hence enables editors, publishers, bloggers etc to feature relavent content on the site.
In most content publishing scenarios, where there are a large set of contributors, certain posts require to be featured in relevant content sections of your WP site, so that they draw the maximim attention span from the readers. This Plugin allows the editors or administrators to mark a set of posts as featured posts. Then using a simple functional call in your theme, you can dynamically display the featured posts. if you want to place it separatly.
Select Featured Posts plugin is also available as a widget.
We would be keen you hear your feedback and requests for any enhancements. Please send your feedback to wordpress@mediologysoftware.com.

Select Featured Posts

A plugin which allows you to select/unselect posts and updates the same using Ajax.

NS Featured Posts vs Select Featured Posts