NS Featured Posts Plugin
A plugin for making posts, pages or custom post types featured. User can enable/disable Featured for selected post types.
NS Featured Posts
This plugin adds checkboxes for each list item. You can easily check / uncheck the Featured. Checking the Featured will set the meta value yes for meta key _is_ns_featured_post. From plugin settings, you can choose to which post types you want Featured functionality.
Using in theme
This plugin only set / unset the meta key for asigned post. 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 post which are checked as Featured.
Want to see how this can be used in a Page Template?
Click this link to see example
Installation
Using The WordPress Dashboard
- Navigate to the ‘Add New’ Plugin Dashboard
- Select ‘ns-featured-posts.zip’ from your computer
- Upload
- Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Dashboard
- Place the ‘NS Featured Posts Widget’ into a Widget area through the ‘Appearance -> Widgets’ menu in WordPress.
Using FTP
- Extract ‘ns-featured-posts.zip’ to your computer
- Upload the ‘ns-featured-posts’ directory to your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory
- Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugins dashboard
- Place the ‘NS Featured Posts Widget’ into a Widget area through the ‘Appearance -> Widgets’ menu in WordPress.
Screenshots

Admin Settings page

Example of featured in Post listing
FAQ
Does this support custom post types? Yes. It supports custom post types also. From Settings page( Settings -> NS Featured Posts), you can enable/disable custom post types for featured.
Changelog
2.0.13 – 17 May 2024
2.0.12 – 16 May 2024
2.0.11 – 15 May 2024
2.0.10 – 23 May 2023
2.0.9 – 4 Feb 2023
2.0.8 – 17 Oct 2022
- Fix PHP notice in plugins page
2.0.7 – 11 Oct 2022
2.0.6 – 4 Jul 2022
2.0.5 – 24 Jun 2022
2.0.4 – 9 Jan 2022
- Add order options in widget
- Minor bug fixes
2.0.3 – 20 Jul 2021
- Compatibility with WP 5.8
- Minor bug fixes
2.0.2
2.0.1
2.0.0
- Major code refactoring
- Add radio mode
- Add max posts option
- Minor bug fixes
1.4.1
1.4.0
- Fix: Allow Editor to toggle checkbox
- Compatibility with WP 4.6
- Fix: Minor Bug fixes
1.3
1.2
1.1
- New: Metabox added in edit screen to enable/disable featured
- Fix: Minor Bug fixes
- Compatibility: Compatibility check with WP 4.2
1.0.2
1.0.1
- Add Featured Posts Widget
- Bug fixes
1.0.0