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Recent & Featured Posts Widget adds a list of recent posts or posts of your choosing with thumbnail images, post titles, dates, times, and excerpts.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Excerpt Length. Change the number of words in the post excerpt.</li>
<li>Excerpt Display. Show the excerpt as a dropdown when someone hovers over a section or display the excerpt directly on the page.</li>
<li>CSS Modification. Modify certain CSS values including image width, text position, and border.</li>
<li>Featured Posts. Don’t want to show recent posts? Enter a list of post IDs. The number of posts shown will depend on the total number of IDs.</li>
<li>Thumbnail Images. Choose to show featured image, or the oldest image attached to a post is shown by default.</li>
<li>Images of your Choosing. Enter a list of image IDs to replace the default images. Images are shown in the order listed.</li>
<li>Date and Time. Show or hide the post date and/or time. Choose a separator that goes between date and time.</li>
<li>Include Sticky Posts. If you include sticky posts, an extra post is added. I.e. if the ‘Number of posts to show’ is 5 and you select ‘Include Sticky Posts’, 6 posts will be shown.</li>
<li>Rectangular or Circular Image.</li>
</ul>

Recent & Featured Posts Widget

Display recent posts or manually selected posts with thumbnail images. Show the excerpt directly on the page or as a dropdown.

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<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
allows administrator and editor an option to set posts, pages & custom posts as a featured posts very easily. Posts, pages & custom posts can be set as featured posts using a checkbox on the posts list page or on the edit page of the post. Please see screenshots to be more clear.
<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
also adds a widget that will list the recent featured posts. This is similar to the default recent posts widget except this widget displays recent featured posts instead. The template for the Featured Posts Pro Widget can be customized with your theme.
<h3>How to use in the theme</h3>
You can to get the featured posts, you need to make a custom query as follows
<h3>sample code to get the featured posts with orders</h3>
`$args = array( 
 ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, 
 ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, 
 ‘no_found_rows’ => true, 
 ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, 
 ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, 
 ‘meta_query’ => array( 
 array( 
 ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ 
 ), 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’ 
 ), 
 ), 
 array( 
 ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, 
 ‘key’ => ‘is_post_featured’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘=’, 
 ‘value’ => 1 
 ) 
 ), 
 ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, 
 ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, 
 ) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );<code><h3>sample code to get the featured posts without order</h3></code>$args = array( 
 ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, 
 ‘no_found_rows’ => true, 
 ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, 
 ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, 
 ‘meta_key’ => ‘is_post_featured’ //this is the meta key used for the featured posts 
) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`
or if you simple want tp
<h3>How to customize the widget</h3>
You can customize the widget template as follows: 
1. create a folder ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ inside your theme folder 
2. create two php files named as ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ & ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ in the ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ folder you just created 
3. template file ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ will be used to render the widget when widget size is selected as large & similarly ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ is for small widget size 
3. copy and paste the content from plugin_fold er > featured-posts-pro > public > partials > featured_posts_pro-widget.php in the above two files 
4. make the layout changes as you wish.

Featured Posts Pro

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This plugin gives Administrator/Editor an easy option to mark posts, pages & custom posts as featured posts and provides a widget to list the rece …

Recent & Featured Posts Widget vs Featured Posts Pro