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NS Featured Posts

by Nilambar Sharma

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Description

NS Featured Posts

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.

Using in theme

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.

Want to see how this can be used in a Page Template?
Click this link to see an example

Using The WordPress Dashboard

  1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ Plugin Dashboard
  2. Select ‘ns-featured-posts.zip’ from your computer
  3. Upload
  4. Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Dashboard
  5. Place the ‘NS Featured Posts Widget’ into a Widget area through the ‘Appearance -> Widgets’ menu in WordPress.

Using FTP

  1. Extract ‘ns-featured-posts.zip’ to your computer
  2. Upload the ‘ns-featured-posts’ directory to your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory
  3. Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugins dashboard
  4. Place the ‘NS Featured Posts Widget’ into a Widget area through the ‘Appearance -> Widgets’ menu in WordPress.
  1. Admin Settings page

    Admin Settings page

  2. Example of featured in Post listing

    Example of featured in Post listing

Does this support custom post types?

Yes. It supports custom post types also. From the Settings page( Settings -> NS Featured Posts), you can enable/disable custom post types for featured.

Good

By woyz1991 on October 30, 2025

Good

buen trabajo

By Marcial Quintanar (marquinz) on August 9, 2025

Muy bien

Very Useful and simple

By jeffsantos on May 15, 2025

Simple, useful and clean.

Works great

By ekrielen on April 16, 2025

Never had a problem with this plugin 🙂

Does what it says it does

By (luisantiago) on October 29, 2024

And does it flawlessly.

Does the job without controversy!

By zennie62media1 on October 14, 2025

This plugin just works for Zennie62Media websites and our news auto-vlog and blog post system, it's extremely valuable.

Useful plugin

By gnilabja on September 14, 2024

A useful plugin for choose featured posts.

Great plugin

By tylervz on August 16, 2024

Super easy to use, and we've never had any problems with it!

Excellent!

By Arun G (arunlapog) on May 16, 2024

Very easy to mark featured posts, developer friendly

Great product

By stiviniii on December 11, 2023

Just what I was looking for!

3.0.1 – 10 Sep 2025

  • WP compatibility

3.0.0 – 30 Jul 2024

  • Requirement: PHP 7.2; WP 6.0
  • Major code refactoring
  • Update dependencies

2.0.13 – 17 May 2024

  • Fix PHP 8.3 notice

2.0.12 – 16 May 2024

  • Add blueprint

2.0.11 – 15 May 2024

  • Fix URLs

2.0.10 – 23 May 2023

  • Update packages

2.0.9 – 4 Feb 2023

  • Fix PHP 8 notices

2.0.8 – 17 Oct 2022

  • Fix PHP notice on the plugins page

2.0.7 – 11 Oct 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

2.0.6 – 4 Jul 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

2.0.5 – 24 Jun 2022

  • Minor bug fixes

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

  • Minor bug fixes

2.0.1

  • Fix bug of cpt

2.0.0

  • Major code refactoring
  • Add radio mode
  • Add max posts option
  • Minor bug fixes

1.4.1

  • Fix links

1.4.0

  • Fix: Allow Editor to toggle checkbox
  • Compatibility with WP 4.6
  • Fix: Minor Bug fixes

1.3

  • Fix: Minor Bug fixes

1.2

  • Fix: Minor Bug fixes

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

  • Bug fixes

1.0.1

  • Add Featured Posts Widget
  • Bug fixes

1.0.0

  • Initial release
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