Ben Huson

More details to follow with the next release.
<h3>1.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>First release.</li>
</ul>

Themeable Sticky Posts

A widget to display featured sticky posts. The built-in template displays a simple list of links, or you can create a template file in your theme for  …

Jonathan Desrosiers

Linchpin

Aaron Ware

The plugin displays a checkbox in the publish meta box to feature a post. The checkbox only appears on admin selected post types which can be selected in the Settings->Writing screen.
When a post is designated as featured:
<ul>
<li>It receives ‘featured’ and <code>featured-{$posttype}</code> classes via the post_class filter.</li>
<li>Shows featured posts as such in the post type’s admin screen</li>
<li>Assigns a post a hidden taxonomy term (featured) that can easily be queried.</li>
</ul>
Note: For the plugin to work on attachments, you must be using 3.5 or above. All other features will work on 3.1.0 and up.

Post Type Spotlight

x-release-please-start-version Stable tag: 3.0.3 x-release-please-end License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.

Themeable Sticky Posts vs Post Type Spotlight