Genesis Featured Posts with support for custom post types, taxonomies, and so much more
As of April 2026, Genesis Featured Widget Amplified is a WordPress genesis plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 90K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 31% this week. Top alternative: Genesis eNews Extended.
Genesis Featured Widget Amplified adds additional functionality to the Genesis Featured Posts Widget. Specifically it:
This plugin requires the Genesis Theme Framework
While the plugin will work on the HTML5 “Pro” themes, the HTML markup only supports the older XHTML themes at this time. It is not recommended for use on the new HTML5 themes.
Thanks to David Decker, this plugin is translation ready. German translation files included.
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the folks at StudioPress, their themes make my life easier.
Gary Jones (aka GaryJ)…
works just great on HTML5 for me!
Thanks for finally updating this versatile plugin, I have used this in so many ways on Genesis themes
Thanks for updating this. Remains the best plugin of its kind.
Fantastic, I use this for custom post types.
I can’t find the Exclude Previously Displayed Post checkbox.
I use this widget several times on the same page and I have the same posts showing everywhere.
I wanted to use this plugin because I want to show posts from all categories except one on my home page without having to create custom post types. I also would like to display random posts in my footer but now it shows already displayed posts.
EDIT: I decided to increase my rating because this plugin is great except that Exclude Previously Displayed Post checkbox that I really need. It’s strange for me to have a plugin that lets you chose random posts but doesn’t check if the post is already displayed.
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
0.9.1 (12-22-2017 : current)
* Fix issue activating with certain versions of Genesis
* Fix issue with double align on linked images
0.9.1 (12-21-2017)
* Allow safe HTML in the post meta and byline fields
0.9 (12-18-2017)
* Huge code standard clean up that fixed white space, documentation, escaping, and several other standards issues. Plugin now passes WPCS.
* Fixed issue where widget did not update in WP 4.9.
0.8.2 (8-3-2017)
* Re…
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