A plugin which allows you to select/unselect posts and updates the same using Ajax.
As of April 2026, Select Featured Posts is a WordPress ajax plugin with 80 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: zipaddr-jp.
This allows you to mark the selected post as featured post and hence enables editors, publishers, bloggers etc to feature relavent content on the site.
In most content publishing scenarios, where there are a large set of contributors, certain posts require to be featured in relevant content sections of your WP site, so that they draw the maximim attention span from the readers. This Plugin allows the editors or administrators to mark a set of posts as featured posts. Then using a simple functional call in your theme, you can dynamically display the featured posts. if you want to place it separatly.
Select Featured Posts plugin is also available as a widget.
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| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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