Title: Select Featured Posts
Author: mediology
Published: <strong>July 26, 2010</strong>
Last modified: November 18, 2010

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# Select Featured Posts

 By [mediology](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mediology/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/select-featured-posts.0.2.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/select-featured-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/select-featured-posts/#developers)

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## Description

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.**

We would be keen you hear your feedback and requests for any enhancements. Please
send your feedback to wordpress@mediologysoftware.com.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Select Featured post checkbox in the Admin panel
 * [[
 * Widget Display.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `select-featured-posts` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to the Posts -> Posts screen if you have wordpress 3.0 and for older versions
    go to Posts -> Edit.
 4. Check and uncheck posts to make it featured/unfeatured
 5. To use it in theme add this before query_posts or get_posts
 6. if (function_exists(‘featured_posts’)) {
     featured_posts(‘add’); }
 7. If query_posts or get_posts is not there in your theme then you can add above code
    and query_posts before while loop
     For eg.

    ```
      if (function_exists('featured_posts')) {
        featured_posts('add');
      }
      query_posts('posts_per_page=10');
        while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
        //Your Code
      endwhile; // end of the loop.
      if (function_exists('featured_posts')) {
        featured_posts('remove');
      }
    ```

 1. To remove the featured post from the query post buffer once the same have been 
    displayed add this code
 2. if (function_exists(‘featured_posts’)) {
     featured_posts(‘remove’); }

For eg.

    ```
      if (function_exists('featured_posts')) {
          featured_posts('add');
        }
        query_posts('category_name=Entertainment');
        // Hence now that the featured posts have been displayed clear them so that they don't get repeated.
        if (function_exists('featured_posts')) {
          featured_posts('remove');
        }
    ```

So it will give featured post of Entertainment Category.

OR

 1. If you want to get Featured post IDs only then use this
 2. if (function_exists(‘get_featured_posts’)) {
     $limit = 5; $featured_posts = get_featured_posts(
    $limit); }
 3. If your theme supports widgets then go to Appearance -> Widgets and just Drag and
    Drop Select Featured Post Widget.
 4. In widget you can specify total no of posts or Featured Post of a Category.

## FAQ

Please send us your questions to wordpress@mediologysoftware.com. We will feature
the frequently asked questions and answers here.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Select Featured Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mediology ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mediology/)
 *   [ Kapil Chugh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kapilchugh/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/select-featured-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/select-featured-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/select-featured-posts/)
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## Changelog

#### 0.2

 * Removed Notices and updated documentation

#### 0.1

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/select-featured-posts/)
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[featured](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured/)
   [featured post](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-post/)[post](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/select-featured-posts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mediology ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mediology/)
 *   [ Kapil Chugh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kapilchugh/)

## Support

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