Featured Posts and Custom Posts
Allows the user to feature posts and custom posts. When a post is featured it gets the post metta _jsFeaturedPost.
4(3 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, Featured Posts and Custom Posts is a WordPress posts plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
4/53 reviews
100active installs
9.0K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
When working on WordPress themes, we tend to use a lot of custom post types. This gives the end- user custom little sections to manage content in. Often enough we see the need to be able to feature posts or custom posts of custom post types (cpts).
This can be accomplished by using a bunch of different Featured Posts Plugins. And we probably have used all of them over the years. To date we have yet to find one that didn’t conflict or break somehting in our WordPress themes. So we created our own, to be specifc we created our own to be easily used with Posts, Custom Posts, and with the Simple Page ordering plugin that we install on every WordPress Theme that we develop.
To use:
- Download the feature-posts-and-custom-posts.zip file to your computer.
- Unzip the file.
- Upload the feature-…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1.1+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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