A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
As of April 2026, NS Featured Posts is a WordPress meta plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 29 reviews. It has been downloaded 113K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are up 13% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
This plugin adds checkboxes for each list item. You can easily check/uncheck the Featured flag. Checking the Featured will set the meta value yes for meta key _is_ns_featured_post. You can choose which post types you want Featured functionality from plugin settings.
This plugin only sets/unsets the meta key for assigned posts. You need to implement it in your theme to get Featured functionality.
Example:
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'meta_key' => '_is_ns_featured_post', 'meta_value' => 'yes' ) );
This will fetch the list of posts that are checked as Featured.
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Simple, useful and clean.
Never had a problem with this plugin 🙂
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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