Title: Featured Post Author: Sovit Tamrakar Published: juni 23, 2010 Last modified: september 12, 2014 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/featured-post.svg) # Featured Post By [Sovit Tamrakar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ssovit/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-post.3.2.1.zip) * [Details](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post/#description) * [Reviews](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post/#installation) * [Development](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/) ## Description Plugin for featured wordpress posts. This is a cool plugin that makes it easier to mark posts as featured posts (not using specific categories) and simple markup to show theme from your theme file. Add `` before the post loop starts and manage the featured posts from the post edit list. Now added widget for listing featured post in sidebar widgets with custom number of post. _Supports Custom Post Type_ Visit us on [GitHub](https://github.com/ssovit/featured-post) to support and donate ## Installation This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. 1. Upload the plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Go to post list are then choose your featured post. 4. Put the code `` before the post loop starts where you want to showt he featured posts. 5. Put a widget on sidebar for listing featured post in unordered list 6. NOTE: ****Please just after the loop you have called the custom query don’t forget to add wp_reset_query(); after the loop, else you will have all other normal post loops showing the featured posts. ## FAQ Why was this plugin created? This plugin was created to for the featured post management. Its easy and any minor wordpress developer or user can use and integrate into his wordpress theme with ease. When I use this plugin to show featured post even when i am not adding “featured =yes” before the loop? This is not a common problem, but this occurs when you are have called query_posts(***.” featured=yes”); before the normal template loop like in category.php or archive. php or even index.php. So, its a good practice to add a wp_reset_query(); after each custom query you make adding “featured=yes”. So why not add the wp_reset_query(); after the loop of featured posts. What is this plugin exactly? As mentioned earlier, this is just a simple featured posts management plugin that adds the post meta data as featured=yes for the particular post marked as featured. Does This Support Custom Post Type? Yes, it does. To display featured post of any Custom Post Type pass the arguement` post_type=YOUR_POST_TYPE` along with `featured=yes`. For example, if I have custom post type “portfolio” and I want to show featured posts in post type “portfolio’( so called featured portfolio), then I would do, `query_posts('post_type=portfolio& featured=yes')` before the `have_posts()` loop. Does it work with WP_Query() class? Yes, absolutely, it does. you can pass it as string type arguement like `$query= new WP_Query('post_type=portfolio&featured=yes&posts_per_page=1')` or even in array type arguement like `$query=new WP_Query(array('post_type'=>'portfolio','featured' =>'yes'));` then use how the regular WP_Query is used. How Does it work exactly? This plugin actually hooks over `pre_get_posts` filter and make the WP_Query class to only fetch posts/entries which are marked featured whenever featured=yes query var is passed as query arguement(Hope that makes sense). ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30231bfd5dececd992e9be580cb19b17af1048891fb577467bfd92849b51ed5f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[As of PHP 8 This plugin is No Longer Viable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/as-of-php-8-this-plugin-is-no-longer-viable/)󠁿 [rftbdev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rftbdev/) juli 20, 2023 This is not a hate post. The plugin worked fine for a website for many years! Unfortunately with PHP updates one of the functions has been removed completely as of PHP 8.create_function() has been removed from PHP as of version 8. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c786390f81ee978c57d2648023319ac6dd9c2ddd633574e42c5252a8815e55df? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Easy and effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-and-effective-20/)󠁿 [Daniel Hendricks](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hendridm/) november 30, 2016 I love this plugin. It’s simple, small and easy to modify. Best of all, it has a simple interface for end-users. NOTE: You may wish to download the plugin from the GitHub link in the description. This one is at version 3.2.1 but the GitHub one is at version 3.5. Works great on WordPress 4.6.1! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8d49d6a1ec85ef7b859140eb3fe7e875580e948dce50e473708b1a11b2370a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Customize the look](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-the-look-2/)󠁿 [vnastey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vnastey/) september 3, 2016 This plugin is awesome, but how can i customize the output? how to rewrite the output, for example, print the category, content of the post? [ Read all 13 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Featured Post” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Sovit Tamrakar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ssovit/) * [ Ghanshyam Khanal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gskhanal/) [Translate “Featured Post” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-post) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-post/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-post/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-post/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-post/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.0.1 Fixed Some Minor Bugs #### 2.0 Did major update to work with Worpdress Version 3.5 #### 1.4.1 Fixed some other minor bug with widget (Just for some more features updates) #### 1.4.0 Fixed Some Minor bugs with featured post management (I really didn’t want to do it) #### 1.3.1 Fixed some bug with widget and backend post section (I wanted to work it out) #### 1.3 Added multi-instance widget(I am not sure if this was needed) #### 1.2.1.0 Added Widget Sidebar for featured post (Just a dumb update) #### 1.0 Frist stable version 1.0 (Just forget this version) ## Meta * Version **3.2.1** * Last updated **8 years ago** * Active installations **900+** * WordPress version ** 3.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.0.38** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post/) * Tags * [featured](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured/)[featured post](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-post/) [post](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)[posts](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/) * [Advanced View](https://pap-aw.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.6 out of 5 stars. * [ 12 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Sovit Tamrakar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ssovit/) * [ Ghanshyam Khanal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gskhanal/) ## Support Got something to say? 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