Mohit Chawla

<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p>Dashboard->Posts>All Posts</p>
<h4>Instructions</h4>
<p>Q1. How to display feature posts?</p>
<p>Plugin comes with a widget, which can be added to sidebar</p>
<p>Q2. How to display featured posts in any desired section of theme(Developers)?</p>
<p>In order to display featured posts in your theme, use the following code to fetch the posts.</p>
<pre><code>$featured_posts = Thfp_public::thfp_get_featured_posts();
</code></pre>
<p>The above code return WP_Query object which you can use in a loop. Above static function accepts a parameter(int) which limits the number of posts which it can return.</p>
<p>Show the posts with the help of custom loop:-</p>
<pre><code>if($featured_posts->have_posts()):
    while($featured_posts->have_posts()): $featured_posts->the_post();
        //Your code here
    endwhile;
endif;
</code></pre>
<p>You can also use your own wp_query. Make sure you use ‘tag’ key to be ‘featured’.</p>
<pre><code>$args = array(
    'post_status'   =>  'publish',
    'tag'           =>  'featured',
    //Use any other needed args
);
$featured_posts = new WP_Query($args);
</code></pre>
<p>and then use the loop to display posts.</p>


Tidyhive Featured Posts

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

Yann at WP&amp;Co

<h4>Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets</h4>
<p>Adds a widget to display a square or rectangular block in the form of an image, title, and subtitle<br />
pointing to a specific post, page, category or theme.</p>
<p>Nice CSS styling. Recommended for inclusion in “magazine styled” home pages.</p>
<p>Multi-widget is supported, so that numerous articles or categories can be featured in a sidebar or home page template.</p>
<p>You can use the provided additional stylesheet, or customize your own.</p>
<p>Base package includes .pot file for translation of the interface, and <strong>English</strong> and <strong>French</strong> versions.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>If you want to contribute to a translation of this plugin, please drop me a line by e-mail or leave a comment<br />
on the <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget" title="Yann Dubois' Featured Box Widget for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s page</a>.<br />
You will get credit for your translation in the plugin file and this documentation, as well as a link on this page and on my developers’ blog.</p>
<h4>Active support</h4>
<p>Drop me a line on my <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget" title="Yann Dubois' Featured Block Widget for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">YD Recent Posts Widget plugin support site</a> to report bugs, ask for specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.<br />
It’s still in an active development stage, with new features coming out on a regular basis.</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.1.0. Initial beta release of 2010/10/14</li>
<li>0.1.1. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/25</li>
<li>0.1.2. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/25</li>
<li>0.1.3. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/26</li>
</ul>
<h3>Did you like it?</h3>
<p>Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget</p>
<p>And… <em>please</em> rate this plugin –></p>


YD Featured Box Widget

Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets

Tidyhive Featured Posts vs YD Featured Box Widget