Featured Post Plugin for Wordpress.
As 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.
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
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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.
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!
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?
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!
Hmm, In general It’s good except when I turn on DEBUG, it has several error notifs. Anyway, thanks for your work.
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Fixed Some Minor Bugs
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