Featured Post
Featured Post Plugin for Wordpress.
4.6(14 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Featured Post is a WordPress post plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 40K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 147% this week. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
4.6/514 reviews
900active installs
40K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
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 <?php query_posts($query_string."&featured=yes"); ?> 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 to support and donate
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
As of PHP 8 This plugin is No Longer Viable
by rftbdev·2 years ago
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.
Easy and effective
by Daniel Hendricks·9 years ago
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!
Customize the look
by vnastey·9 years ago
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?
Great!
by andrewcow108·10 years ago
Awesome! It took me a while to get working because I am a bit of a dunce with web design. I couldn’t figure out which line to add the code on. For me on my index.php, is was just after the get_header line (so on line 2). Hope this helps others!
It helps
by Tran Cuong·11 years ago
Hmm, In general It’s good except when I turn on DEBUG, it has several error notifs. Anyway, thanks for your work.
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 2This week: 37Period total: 760
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.2
98.3%
v2.0
1.7%
Top Alternatives to Featured Post
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.1
Fixed Some Minor Bugs
Contributors
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