Title: Featured Posts Pro
Author: thapa.laxman
Published: October 3, 2016
Last modified: April 4, 2019
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# Featured Posts Pro
By [thapa.laxman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thapalaxman/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-posts-pro.1.4.zip)
* [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-posts-pro/#description)
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* [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-posts-pro/#installation)
* [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-posts-pro/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-posts-pro/)
## Description
### Featured Posts Pro
allows administrator and editor an option to set posts, pages & custom posts as
a featured posts very easily. Posts, pages & custom posts can be set as featured
posts using a checkbox on the posts list page or on the edit page of the post. Please
see screenshots to be more clear.
### Featured Posts Pro
also adds a widget that will list the recent featured posts. This is similar to
the default recent posts widget except this widget displays recent featured posts
instead. The template for the **Featured Posts Pro Widget** can be customized with
your theme.
### How to use in the theme
You can to get the featured posts, you need to make a custom query as follows
### sample code to get the featured posts with orders
`$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘any’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘no_found_rows’ =
> true, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, ‘meta_query’
=> array( array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, ‘
compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ ), array( ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, ‘compare’ => ‘
NOT EXISTS’ ), ), array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, ‘key’ => ‘is_post_featured’, ‘compare’
=> ‘=’, ‘value’ => 1 ) ), ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`sample code to get the featured posts
without order
`$args = array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘no_found_rows’ => true,‘
post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, ‘meta_key’ => ‘is_post_featured’//
this is the meta key used for the featured posts ) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`
or if you simple want tp
### How to customize the widget
You can customize the widget template as follows:
1. create a folder ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’
inside your theme folder 2. create two php files named as ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.
php’ & ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ in the ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ folder
you just created 3. template file ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ will be used
to render the widget when widget size is selected as large & similarly ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.
php’ is for small widget size 3. copy and paste the content from plugin_fold er
> featured-posts-pro > public > partials > featured_posts_pro-widget.php in the
above two files 4. make the layout changes as you wish.
## Screenshots
* [[
* Posts list page with ‘featured’ option
* [[
* ‘Featured’ option while creating or editing a new post
* [[
* Featured Posts Pro as a widget
* [[
* Widget template customization
* [[
* Ability to use custom post types as well for the featured posts
* [[
* Set ordering of the featured posts
## Installation
1. Install using the WordPress built-in Plugin installer, or Extract the zip file
and drop the contents in the `wp-content/plugins/` directory of your WordPress
installation.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. If you want to use the widget, then go to Apperance > Widgets > Featured Post Pro
4. The options on the widget are self explained
## FAQ
How can I contact you?
You can contact me from http://www.lakshman.com.np/featured-posts-pro/
## Reviews
### [Great plugin that does what other plugins didn’t do!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-that-does-what-other-plugins-didnt-do/)
[SforSteph](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sforsteph/) January 16, 2017
Great plugin – and great plugin author who fixed a minor issue with the plugin for
me very quickly! Highly recommend!!
### [perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-1799/)
[alina2002](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alina2002/) October 22, 2016
this is what i was looking. simple yet effective.
### [FUnky image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/funky-image/)
[resepan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/resepan/) October 15, 2016 1 reply
feature image looks so funky it’s vertical list https://postimg.org/image/7oroxkt9x/
### [perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-852/)
[thapa.laxman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thapalaxman/) October 7, 2016
perfect
### [nice plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-plugin-393/)
[Kabitaprocab](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kabitaprocab/) October 7, 2016
nice plugin
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## Contributors & Developers
“Featured Posts Pro” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ thapa.laxman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thapalaxman/)
[Translate “Featured Posts Pro” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-posts-pro)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-posts-pro/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-posts-pro/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-posts-pro/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-posts-pro/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.3.0
The ability to include custom post types for the featured posts. The featured post
can now be ordered.
#### 1.3.2
‘Posts’ post type is selected by default
#### 1.3.5
bug on ‘quick edit’ on posts page fixed
#### 1.3.8
bug fixes
#### 1.4
fixed bug that prevented the plugin to be used on child theme. Thx to Shane Bill
on identifying this issue.
## Meta
* Version **1.4**
* Last updated **7 years ago**
* Active installations **100+**
* WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
* Tested up to **5.1.22**
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-posts-pro/)
* Tags
* [featured](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured/)[featured post widget](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-post-widget/)
[featured posts](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-posts/)
* [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-posts-pro/advanced/)
## Ratings
4.2 out of 5 stars.
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## Contributors
* [ thapa.laxman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thapalaxman/)
## Support
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