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.

Huseyin Berberoglu

Allows users to add favorite posts. This plugin use cookies and database for 
saving data.
<ul>
<li>If a user logged in then favorites data will saved in database instead of cookies.</li>
<li>If user not logged in data will saved in cookies.</li>
</ul>
You can choose “only registered users can favorite a post” option, if you want. 
Also there is a widget named “Most Favorited Posts”. And you can use this template 
tag for listing most favorited posts;
Most Favorited Posts
If you use WP Super Cache you must add page (which you show favorites) URI to “Accepted Filenames & 
Rejected URIs”.
If you need support <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-favorite-posts" rel="ugc">create a topic on support forum</a>
Please submit your pull requests to https://github.com/hberberoglu/wp-favorite-posts

WP Favorite Posts

Allows visitors to add favorite posts. This plugin use cookies for saving data so
unregistered users can favorite a post.

Random Featured Post vs WP Favorite Posts