Nelio Featured Posts

With this WordPress plugin, you can define a set of featured posts easily.
These featured posts can be added to your theme wherever you want via a widget.

The plugin is extremely simple, fast, and reliable. Once you have selected the
featured posts, they are saved in a cache, so that the amount of database
queries is kept to the minimum.

Custom Templates
Version 2.0.0 let’s you define your own templates for displaying each related
post. Just create a directory named neliofp in your theme’s directory and
create the template you want to use such as, for instance,
template-name.php. When inserting the widget, specify that the template is
template-name and you’re ready to go!

Warning Remember to save your templates somewhere save before updating
your theme!

(In the directory template-examples you’ll find some examples).

Featured image by Abulic
Monkey

Features

• Featured Posts Selection Set the list of featured posts from one single
  place.
• Powered by a Widget Use the featured images wherever you want by simply
  adding a widget.
• Customization You can tweak a few details of the featured post list, such
  as the section title or the number of words in the excerpt.

Featured On

• 13 Awesome Free Featured Post Widgets for
  WordPress
  (designcoral.com)
• How To Set Up a Collection of Featured
  Posts (Nelio’s blog)

Related Plugins by Nelio

• Nelio Content |
  Download
• Nelio A/B Testing |
  Download
• Nelio External Featured Image |
  Download
• Nelio Related Posts |
  Download

Featured image by Abulic
Monkey

1. 

   Easy Settings Don't get lost with thousand of options. Simply set the featured posts you want and you're done. essentials and you're done!

2. 

   Widget Just place the widget wherever you want, as many times as you want.

2.2.4 (November 29, 2019)

• Compatibility check with WordPress 5.3.

2.2.3 (June 6, 2018)

• Fixed links to Nelio A/B Testing.
• Added a few more strings to be internationalized.

2.2.2 (September 1, 2017)

• Improved internationalization strings.
• Escaped some strings.

2.2.1 (July 25, 2016)

• Added i18n support.
• Translated to Spanish and Catalan.

2.2.0 (Dec 14, 2015)

• Improved behavior: you can now drag and drop items, so that you can sort
  featured posts as you please.
• Fixed compatibility issue with WordPress 4.4 (Delete actions were not
  visible).

2.1.0

• New filter for selecting which posts are shown in the widget. The filter
  neliofp_get_featured_posts lets you select which posts will be shown on
  the front-end.

2.0.0

• Use custom templates (on a per-widget basis) for rendering featured posts.

1.1.3

• Improved script inclusion to prevent collisions with other plugins.
• Referencing our A/B testing service for WordPress.

1.1.2

• Tweaking CSS styles just to make sure that featured posts with featured
  images use a proper layout.

1.1.1

• Bug fix: on previous versions of the plugin, saving the list of featured
  posts for the first time did not work (but, after that first attemp, save
  function worked properly). Now, this does no longer occurs and featured posts
  are properly saved always.

1.1.0

• When adding a new featured post, you can now add it in the beginning or in
  the end of your list of featured posts.

1.0.0

• First release.
• Define a set of featured posts and show them to your visitors.