Title: Featured Posts
Author: Ron Rennick
Published: <strong>October 22, 2009</strong>
Last modified: January 13, 2017

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Featured Posts

 By [Ron Rennick](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmuguru/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-mu-featured-posts.2.8.3.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/)

## Description

Adds a featured post management page for site admins who can input a sitewide feed
address, then select posts via a checkbox. Also includes a widget to disply posts
on the main (or any) blog.

We recommend using the [Sitewide tags plugin](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/)
in WPMU, then placing the feed address from the tags blog in the admin menu. Otherwise,
any blog feed can be used.

A widget is included. You can also code the output in your theme with `<?php ra_featured_show(
$how_many, $read_more, $show_avatar); ?>` where

    ```
    $how_many = how many posts to show - default 1
    $read_more = add read more link - default show link
    $show_avatar = show author avatar - default show avatar
    ```

Also includes a shortcode with parameters where values & defaults match what is 
above

    ```
    [ra-featured howmany=1 readmore=1 showavatar=1]
    ```

For questions & updates, please see this post:
 [WPMU Tutorials](http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/featured-posts-plugin-and-widget/)

## Installation

Unzip the files and drop the two files and the folder in the mu-plugins folder.

ra-featured-posts.php
 ra-featured-posts-widget.php folder: ra-featured-posts ra-
featured-posts-admin.php ra-featured-posts-install.php

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Ron Rennick ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmuguru/)
 *   [ Andrea Rennick ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrea_r/)

[Translate “Featured Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.8.3

 * Add widget control box

#### 2.8.2

 * Update for WordPress 3.0
 * Add shortcode

#### 2.8.1

 * Fixed misplaced permission check.

#### 2.8

 * Original version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/)
 * Tags
 * [featured post](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-post/)[feeds](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feeds/)
   [sitewide](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitewide/)[widget](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
   [wpmu](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wpmu/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ron Rennick ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmuguru/)
 *   [ Andrea Rennick ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrea_r/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/)