As of April 2026, Multisite Featured Blog is a WordPress Blogs plugin with 10 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Ultra Companion – Companion plugin for….
This plugin helps to create a widget and shortcode to create featured blogs.
Following are the things done
A settings page created for featured.
You can enter the blog id in the blog id: text box in the settings page and click on get blog details button .
This will fetch( by AJAX ) get the blog name , blog link , and blog Avatar ( based on the avatars plugin ).
It will also add two buttons
Add this blog -> Which will add this blog to the featured blog list
Can -> it will not add the blog to the featured blog list.
Then saving the settings will save it. The settings are saved different for each blog .
Then the user can use the widget as follows .
Drag the widget on a widgetize area.
Enter the blogids in the widget , then those blogs will be…
| WordPress | 2.9.1+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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