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NS Featured Posts
A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.8★ from 29
- Active installs
- 4k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2025
- Added
- Jun 2014
- Requires WP
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.2
- Downloads
- 116,356
Our analysis
AI-assistedNS Featured Posts is a WordPress plugin that allows you to mark posts as featured using checkboxes. It sets a meta value for posts, enabling you to filter and display featured content in your theme. The plugin requires implementation in your theme to fully utilise its functionality.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to highlight specific posts on their WordPress site and have the technical ability to integrate it into their theme's code.
Best for: This suits WordPress users looking to highlight specific posts on their site.
What it does well
- ✓Allows easy marking of posts as featured
- ✓Sets a meta value for featured posts
- ✓Customisable for different post types
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Requires theme implementation for full functionality
- •Limited information on usage examples
Verdict
NS Featured Posts provides a straightforward way to manage featured content, but requires some coding knowledge to implement effectively.
From the developer
Nilambar Sharma's own description of NS Featured Posts, lightly tidied.
NS Featured Posts
This plugin adds checkboxes for each list item. You can easily check/uncheck the Featured flag. Checking the Featured will set the meta value yes for meta key _is_ns_featured_post. You can choose which post types you want Featured functionality from plugin settings.
Using in theme
This plugin only sets/unsets the meta key for assigned posts. You need to implement it in your theme to get Featured functionality.
Example:
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'meta_key' => '_is_ns_featured_post', 'meta_value' => 'yes' ) );
This will fetch the list of posts that are checked as Featured.
Want to see how this can be used in a Page Template?
Click this link to see an example
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