Mohit Chawla

This plugin adds the ability for the user to mark a post to be a featured post with just one click without the need of editing an individual post. The plugin also includes a widget which can display all the posts which have been marked featured.
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ul>
<li>Go to your admin dashboard page.</li>
<li>Open all posts page which displays the list of posts in table.</li>
<li>A column name ‘Featured posts’ will be there with a star icon in each row.</li>
<li>Click the star to make that post as featured.</li>
</ul>
Dashboard->Posts>All Posts
<h4>Instructions</h4>
Q1. How to display feature posts?
Plugin comes with a widget, which can be added to sidebar
Q2. How to display featured posts in any desired section of theme(Developers)?
In order to display featured posts in your theme, use the following code to fetch the posts.
<pre><code>$featured_posts = Thfp_public::thfp_get_featured_posts();
</code></pre>
The above code return WP_Query object which you can use in a loop. Above static function accepts a parameter(int) which limits the number of posts which it can return.
Show the posts with the help of custom loop:-
<pre><code>if($featured_posts->have_posts()):
 while($featured_posts->have_posts()): $featured_posts->the_post();
 //Your code here
 endwhile;
endif;
</code></pre>
You can also use your own wp_query. Make sure you use ‘tag’ key to be ‘featured’.
<pre><code>$args = array(
 'post_status' => 'publish',
 'tag' => 'featured',
 //Use any other needed args
);
$featured_posts = new WP_Query($args);
</code></pre>
and then use the loop to display posts.

Tidyhive Featured Posts

Set featured posts with single click, no page refresh from admin panel.

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Advanced Widget Pack plugin comprises of seven widgets: Author Details, Author List, Popular Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Comments, Random Posts and Recent Posts. 
Author Details: This widget displays author gravatar and allows you to align the gravatar to left or right. It also allows you to display author description which is already given by the user in his profile or you can add custom description.at the end you can add a read more link which will take you to your desired page and another option to display author\’s archive link. 
Author List: This widget displays names of all authors who have published a post. It allows you to exclude one or more authors from the list by adding their IDs. you can also limit the number of authors to display.
Popular Post: By default, the title for this widget is Popular Posts. You can specify the title of your choice if you want. 
You can also specify the number of popular posts to be displayed in the \”Number of Posts\” field. By default, 5 popular posts will be displayed. 
There are two radio buttons to sort the popular posts according to the number of views and number of comments. You can select either of the two options. By default, popular posts are sorted according to views. 
After the radio buttons, there are check-boxes. You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts.
Random Posts: This widget displays the posts in random order each time your window refresh. 
First field is the title field where you can specify the title of your choice. By default, the title is Recent Posts. 
Then there are check-boxes. You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts. 
In the \”Number of Posts\” field, you can specify the number of posts to be displayed. By default, 5 recent posts will be displayed.
Recent Posts: This widget displays the recent posts in your sidebar. 
First field is the title field where you can specify the title of your choice. By default, the title is Recent Posts. 
Then there are check-boxes. You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts. 
In the \”Number of Posts\” field, you can specify the number of posts to be displayed. By default, 5 recent posts will be displayed.
Recent Comments: This widget is used to display the most recent comments on your website. 
In the title field, you can specify the title for your widget. You can select the check-boxes if you want to display the comment text and the commentator\’s gravatar respectively. 
You also specify the number of recent comments to be displayed.
Featured Posts: You can change the default title in the title field and number of posts to display. 
You can select any number of check-boxes to display the content related to the posts. 
You can choose to display the posts belonging to a particular category only.

Advance Widget Pack

This plugin displays the featured posts, recent posts, recent comments, popular posts, author details and author list.

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