Omid Reza Vasheghani Farahani

This plugin can be used for managing multi-part posts which be published in a serial way. 
One can create series and then add the ID of the serie to each belonging post in the edit screen. At the bottom of each post which belongs to a serie, the corresponding serie will be shown. also a list of all other posts in the same serie will be added at the bottom of the post. 
Each serie can be easily added to WordPress custom menus and shown in a menu area or as a side bar widget. 
This plugin can be a really good help to those publishing multi-part tutorials using WordPress platform.

WP Series Manager

This plugin can be used for managing multi-part posts which be published in a serial way.

Nilambar Sharma

<h3>NS Featured Posts</h3>
This plugin adds checkboxes for each list item. You can easily check/uncheck the Featured flag. Checking the Featured will set the meta value yes for meta key _is_ns_featured_post. You can choose which post types you want Featured functionality from plugin settings.
<h4>Using in theme</h4>
This plugin only sets/unsets the meta key for assigned posts. You need to implement it in your theme to get Featured functionality.
Example:
<pre><code>$query = new WP_Query( array( 'meta_key' => '_is_ns_featured_post', 'meta_value' => 'yes' ) );
</code></pre>
This will fetch the list of posts that are checked as Featured.
Want to see how this can be used in a Page Template? 
<a href="https://gist.github.com/ernilambar/ad31b89b459e954fc950" rel="nofollow ugc">Click this link to see an example</a>

NS Featured Posts

A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.

WP Series Manager vs NS Featured Posts