NebulosaWeb

<p>Simple Featured Posts is a pratical widget that allows you to show a post list with thumbnails ordered by random or recent posts. You can also choose post’s categories and how many posts you want to show.<br />
This widget show the first image found in the post as thumbnail or thumbnail image of posts if supported by template.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>You can show a thumbnail image.</li>
<li>Choice the number of posts to show.</li>
<li>Posts list ordered by random or date.</li>
<li>Choose or exclude categories from posts list.</li>
<li>TimThumb support for a perfect resize.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Appearence</h4>
<p>The appearance is essential to allow people who use it to customize their own template’s CSS easily, without clashing too much with the preset styles of widget.</p>


Simple Featured Posts Widget

Simple Featured Posts is a pratical widget that allows you to show a post list with thumbnails ordered by random or recent posts.

Nilambar Sharma

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


NS Featured Posts

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

Simple Featured Posts Widget vs NS Featured Posts