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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The Awesome featured posts is a light weight WordPress plugin. It enables custom, flexible and
featured posts. User can see Latest Featured Posts in Simple List View/Slider View. User can
display posts from specific category / tag or multiple categories / tags. User can style the
widget individually.It allows you to display a list of featured posts with/without thumbnail, excerpt,
post date and much more. You can set the size for the thumbnail or just take the standard from your
options. You can also show the excerpt with first 3 or more words and with/without <code>Read More</code> text
option. It allows user to choose where to display posts in website.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Allows to display Featured Posts in two ways: 
a. Simple List View 
b. Using Slider</li>
<li>Most useful feature of this plugin is user can see Latest Featured Posts by setting number of 
months field eg: 2 months / 5 months old posts</li>
<li>Allows to display posts in slider by just Turn On/Off Show Posts In Slider</li>
<li>Allows you to display featured posts from specific category / tag or multiple categories / 
tags</li>
<li>Slider options such as AutoPlay, Pagination, Stop on Hover, Time Interval, Sliding Speed</li>
<li>Allows to set Title</li>
<li>Allows to assign text Before/After Post</li>
<li>Supports Post, Page post type</li>
<li>Supports Offset field</li>
<li>Allows to set number of Posts to display</li>
<li>Order by Date, ID, Parent, Comment Count, Random </li>
<li>Turn On/Off Post Meta field, eg: [post_categories] [post_tags]</li>
<li>Display excerpt, with customizable length and <code>read more...</code> text</li>
<li>Display post date / post modified date / Relative Date. eg: 5 days ago of Post</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, with customizable size and alignment</li>
<li>Choose pages to display posts</li>
<li>Allows to add Custom css to display Featured Posts</li>
</ol>

Awesome Featured Post Widget

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