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Featured Post with thumbnail

Screenshots

  • Add featured post
  • Admin widget Featured Post
  • Widget Featured Posts in action

Installation

The Featured Posts can be installed in 3 easy steps:

  1. Unzip “featured-posts” archive and put all files into your “plugins” folder (/wp-content/plugins/) or to create a sub directory into the plugins folder (recommanded), like /wp-content/plugins/featured-posts/

  2. Activate the plugin

  3. Inside the WordPress admin, go to Appearance > Widgets, Add this widget in the sidebar section in which you want to view it.

Support Forum

For any clarifications, suggestions, or criticism you can leave a comment on Forum Support.

Reviews

Èrèlé 7, 2017
If you want to see it in action: check any page beside the front page on nagmusik. It works great, but the size of text i had to change in the editor.
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Contributors & Developers

“Featured Post with thumbnail” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.5.2

  • fixed: all featured posts are shown
  • fixed: in a post without images the default one is shown

1.5.1

  • fixed: compatible with previous versions of the plugin

1.5

  • fixed: timthumb vulnerability

1.4

  • add: ability to use the plugin as a widget and as a function within the template
  • add: documentation to use the widget as a function
  • add: possibility to using the image provided by the function “the_post_thumbnail()” if it is available

1.3

  • add: brazilian language (thanks to fernando lopes)
  • fixed: problem with the float image

1.2

  • fixed: problem with the draft post

1.1

  • fixed: resolved conflict with wordpress sticky post

1.0

(Initial Version)

  • Italian Language
  • English Language
  • Ability to choose how many posts to display on the sidebar
  • Ordering:
    Random
    Title
    Date
    Author
    Modified
    ID
  • Possibility to choose the size of thumbnails.