Nelio Featured Posts (nelio-featured-posts) free WordPress plugin

With this WordPress plugin, you can define a set of featured posts easily.
These featured posts can be added to your theme wherever you want via a widget.

The plugin is extremely simple, fast, and reliable. Once you have selected the
featured posts, they are saved in a cache, so that the amount of database
queries is kept to the minimum.

Custom Templates
Version 2.0.0 let’s you define your own templates for displaying each related
post. Just create a directory named neliofp in your theme’s directory and
create the template you want to use such as, for instance,
template-name.php. When inserting the widget, specify that the template is
template-name and you’re ready to go!

Warning Remember to save your templates somewhere save before updating
your theme!

(In the directory template-examples you’ll find some examples).

Featured image by Abulic
Monkey

Features

• Featured Posts Selection Set the list of featured posts from one single
  place.
• Powered by a Widget Use the featured images wherever you want by simply
  adding a widget.
• Customization You can tweak a few details of the featured post list, such
  as the section title or the number of words in the excerpt.

Featured On

• 13 Awesome Free Featured Post Widgets for
  WordPress
  (designcoral.com)
• How To Set Up a Collection of Featured
  Posts (Nelio’s blog)

Related Plugins by Nelio

• Nelio Content |
  Download
• Nelio A/B Testing |
  Download
• Nelio External Featured Image |
  Download
• Nelio Related Posts |
  Download

Featured image by Abulic
Monkey