Easily allows you to designate posts, pages, attachments and custom post types as featured.
The plugin displays a toggle within the publish area to feature a post. The toggle only appears on admin selected post types which can be selected in the Settings -> Writing
screen.
When a post is designated as featured:
-
It receives
featured
andfeatured-{$posttype}
classes via the post_class filter. -
Shows featured ⭐️ in the post type's admin post list screen.
-
Assigns the post a hidden taxonomy term (featured) that can easily be queried via the
pts_feature_tax
taxonomy. -
Note: For the plugin to work on attachments, you must be using 3.5 or above. All other features will work on 3.1.0 and up.*
- Better compatibility with the Block Editor and the enhancements it brings.
- Added a new Featured Posts Variation of the Query Loop
- Added the ability to filter teh Featured Posts Query Loop to only show featured posts
- Added the ability to filter the Featured Posts Query Loop to show all posts excluding featured posts
- Added the ability to filter the Featured Posts Query Loop to show all posts and show featured posts first (similar to sticky)
- Updated all dependencies
- Added the ability to sort post lists by featured posts.
- Upload the plugin folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Navigate to the Settings->Writing section and select the post types you would like to have the featured abilities.
- The settings page.
- Options on the edit screen
- Markup example when using post_class();
- Shows featured posts in post edit tables.