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.

wpoets

Amit Kumar Singh

pateln54

Featured Today allows you to show featured articles or latest articles from a category that you select. It is very simple to use, just place the ‘featured today widget’ in the right widget area, select the category you want to display. It will show featured article in the same way as featured articles are shown on the linkedin today page.
This plugin is brought to you by <a href="http://wpoets.com/" title="WordPress based development shop" rel="nofollow ugc">WPoets</a> development team.
Features
<ul>
<li>Displays as widget</li>
<li>You can set number of articles to show</li>
<li>You can select the category to use</li>
</ul>

Featured Today

Featured Today shows featured articles like it is shown on linkedin today.

Tidyhive Featured Posts vs Featured Today