The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category. Ideally this should 
draw readers landing on your homepage to some of your best posts. The featured post will display the title 
“Featured Post” (customizable) along with the post’s title, an excerpt and a link to continue to the full post.
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>The show_featured_post($PreFeature = ”, $PostFeature = ”, $AlwaysShow = false, $categoryID = 0, $NumberOfPosts = 0) function has five optional arguments. 
The first two are for any HTML you would like to display before and after the featured post. The third argument is a 
boolean (true/false) argument which will override the \’Show Featured Post\’ option and always display the featured post when true. The fourth option allows you to 
specify a single category to display from, overriding the selections in settings page. The fifth option allows you to show more than one post at a time, overriding 
the settings page option.</li>
<li>All output is contained in a DIV class named “featuredpost” and can be adjusted via your stylesheet.</li>
</ul>

Random Featured Post

The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category as a "featured" post.

Shashi Kumar

BuddyPress is a great plugin to create a community website. Users get engaged by adding various updates, comments, and replies. It provides the capability to favorite an activity. If you like the update you can favorite it and it will be added to my favorites section. But, BuddyPress does not provide any direct method to show them how many favorites you activity has received. This plugin is built to show the total number of favorites count in a beautiful way. By default, it will show three avatars of the recently favorited user and the total count of favorites.

BP Who Favorited

A plugin to show users who have favorited a BuddyPress activity.

Random Featured Post vs BP Who Favorited