WordPress Display specific/multiple posts as Featured Post List Plugins

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Posted on November 7, 2008 by w3cGallery

WordPress Featured Post List Plugin

Some time before i was searching to have a option to display a specific post list on my sidebar coz my clients wanted this feature in your websites. Infact we have many other plugins to display “recent posts” Popular post and specific post with details too but not list in sidebar. so i have decided to develop a plugins for that requirements.

so this plugin in developed. ( requirement is mother of invention lol )

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Installation Instructions

1. unzip file and upload file “featured-posts-list.php” into your /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Go to your plugins page and activate plugin.
3. Go to Settings/options >> Featured Posts List tab to update posts Id’s to display under your featured Posts list on your site.
4. you can user multiple posts Id’s by use comma. example : 1, 2, 3, it will display 3 post lists
5. add <?php featuredpostsList(); ?> on your sidebar.php or any other page to display featured posts list.
6. you can pass before and after varibles. this is default setting <?php featuredpostsList($before = <li>”, $after = </li>”) ?>

If you like this plugin, please leave your comments.

56 thoughts on “WordPress Display specific/multiple posts as Featured Post List Plugins”

baron on November 11, 2008 at 3:44 pm said:

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards

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Mircea Soaica on November 18, 2008 at 3:56 pm said:

thanks!great plugin

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Mihail on January 4, 2009 at 2:07 pm said:

Hello. Unfortunately I have not been able to make it work. I tried both ways: have it in a text widget (I would prefer this one) or have it pasted into sidebar.php. Can you please advice me?

Thanks!

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SAN on January 5, 2009 at 6:29 am said:

Hi Mihail,
so sorry about you, you need to paste it direct into sidebar.php, it wont work with widget.

try this in your sidebar.php

<li><h2>Featured Posts</h2>
<ul>
< ?php featuredpostsList(); ?>
</ul>
</li>

and must activate plugin
it will work

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o4tuna on January 8, 2009 at 12:57 am said:

I’ve tried this in wp 2.7 and it doesn’t function properly. It will only display the last record in the posts table, no matter what post id’s I set.

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SAN on January 12, 2009 at 11:32 am said:

NO, i have checked it from my end also today after get your reply.. even i know many guy using 2.7 version with this plugins, and not face any problem yet..

check from your end again,
it should works

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Girish on February 3, 2009 at 10:04 am said:

What do you mean by post id , how can I get my post IDs,
When ever I give 1 , 2 or 3 its just displaying one post all the time

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SAN on February 4, 2009 at 8:21 am said:

Girish,
When ever you try to edit any post in admin panel, you will see a ID in query string ( explorer address bar) that is the ID of that post,

you can use that to display as featured list

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Zuri on February 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm said:

Hey,
When I’m trying to use <?php featuredpostsList($before = “, $after = “) ?>, I get an error…
Anyone tried it?

Thanks

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SAN on February 23, 2009 at 6:02 am said:

Please try to use this < ?php featuredpostsList(); ?>
or you can use your code in template like this
< ?php featuredpostsList($before = ‘<li>’, $after = ‘</li>’) ?>

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Rohan on February 25, 2009 at 8:33 pm said:

I am having problems with mine. How exactly do I add the images onto the featured random posts? I do not know. And what about text?

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SAN on February 26, 2009 at 6:55 am said:

This is for display list like you can view on topright side “Featured Posts” on w3cgallery.com, its not display feature post with image and text

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Scott Allen on March 2, 2009 at 8:39 pm said:

I’m thinking… wouldn’t it take not much more time to update it to work in a widget vs. explaining to people that it doesn’t work in a widget?

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SAN on March 3, 2009 at 7:41 am said:

Yes Scott,
it doesnot work in widget, as you can see above messages.
im working on other version. and that will be update soon, keep track

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Mobile Phone News on March 12, 2009 at 7:33 pm said:

thanks! amazing plugin

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Juanita on March 30, 2009 at 2:48 pm said:

featured posts not showing up on category or tag pages. they show up fine on front page. seems that the before and after show up but not the data, the link and title? can you tell me how to fix this? Thanks

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SAN on April 1, 2009 at 6:38 am said:

oh.. i have tested this on tag and category page also.. can you show me your url? to check me once.
thanks
SAN

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miraclemaker on April 9, 2009 at 12:08 pm said:

I have updated this plugin to work as a widget. You can download the updated file from here: http://www.davidfelton.co.uk/wordpress/featured-posts-list.php.txt

remove the .txt extension and overwrite the file at /wp-content/plugins/featured-posts-list.php

Original author – please feel free to include this code in your next update, it’s only a few lines.

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BigELK176 on April 10, 2009 at 3:31 am said:

Is it able to a list on a post/page?

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SAN on April 10, 2009 at 5:55 am said:

No Page, Just for Post Id’s please

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Duane Johnson on April 13, 2009 at 4:49 am said:

Great plugin. I do have one issue. I’m getting a blank tag as the first item in the list. It then displays the posts I set. Any ideas?

Duane

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SAN on April 13, 2009 at 11:09 am said:

Thanks, Duane i guess you are using Page id or wrong post id
remember, this will display only posts, so use only post ID’s

it wont work with page id

use post like this

1st post id , 2nd post id ,

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Duane Johnson on April 13, 2009 at 2:18 pm said:

It’s showing all of the posts that I put IDs for. I’m using the post # that WordPress is showing me. The source HTML is showing a blank anchor link in the beginning, but all of the posts I want are listed.

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miraclemaker on April 16, 2009 at 3:04 pm said:

Is it possible to make the settings page (to set the featured post list) available to Editors as well as administrators?

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BigELK176 on May 8, 2009 at 2:09 pm said:

Can I make a Featured Post List displayed in a page?

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Marc on May 9, 2009 at 5:19 pm said:

I got the same problem as o4tuna.
I put it the ids, and it doesnt show the post i placed there, it just shows the last post, serveral times, for every id i placed.
The strange thing is I tested my site in Xampp offline before. In there it works properly. Could some other plugin mess it up?
Thanks for any help..

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Marc on May 9, 2009 at 5:28 pm said:

I think, I found the problem. The Plugin “Adhesive” doesn´t work well with this plugin. It´s some plugin for stickys, I think. I just deactivated it and now everything works well. I just hope, that sticky-plugins won´t cause problems in general.

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SAN on May 11, 2009 at 6:23 am said:

Yes.. it possible that any other plugin messing it, please check and update to us about that plugin, so we can fix that

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Angel G. Martinez on May 17, 2009 at 10:08 pm said:

Some Demo?

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SAN on May 20, 2009 at 8:06 am said:

thanks Marc

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SAN on May 29, 2009 at 5:19 am said:

Demo: ?check right side top on w3cgallery “featured post” section

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Rocky on June 29, 2009 at 9:58 pm said:

Thanks! It works best for me!

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allhimachal.com on July 1, 2009 at 4:58 pm said:

thanks Marc, this a great plugin

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meritsbirthday on October 15, 2009 at 6:33 am said:

I have been looking for a code like this for some time. Thank you very much for the help. One quick question. When I put the code in, the post titles only list five at a time, and then allows users to press next entries to see more post titles. Is there a way to simply list all of the post titles on one page?

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SAN on October 16, 2009 at 8:11 am said:

No, plugin doesnot have any limitation, i can multiple title, but you need to add Post id in wp-admin

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greg on March 18, 2010 at 8:30 pm said:

Has this plugin been updated to work with a widget yet? If not does anyone have a featured posts plugin that does? Direct editing of the sidebar.php has gone out of style a long time ago.

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sam on May 21, 2010 at 5:23 pm said:

works great with v2.9.2 in morzilla, but internet exploerer will not display anything..
Any compatibillity?

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SAN on May 26, 2010 at 8:55 am said:

Sam, check your css, must be some problem, that why not working on IE

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JK on June 21, 2010 at 2:15 pm said:

Dear SAN, the plugin is fantastic. There is however one thing I’d appreciate help with:

How would Add this to the existing plugin code:

As you can see, I want to have the date appear after the post title.

I just don’t know where and how to implement the code because Plugins aren’t my speciality!

Would very much appreciate the help!

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SAN on June 25, 2010 at 2:42 pm said:

JK, you need to edit wp-content/plugins/featured-post-listing2.php file, it has h1 tag for title, and rest below. just make some css changes and it will be fixed

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Cary Ganz on June 30, 2010 at 3:41 pm said:

I am using TweetSheep as a template. It is great. I want to show the featured post in the Featured Post section at the top of each page in the space provided in the template. Can you provide instructions on how to do this? thanks

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Cary Ganz on June 30, 2010 at 4:12 pm said:

In the header.php where do I place this code?

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SAN on July 2, 2010 at 8:00 am said:

any where you wants to display featured posts

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atozvision on October 11, 2010 at 12:25 pm said:

doesn’t properly work

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New Digital Gadgets on December 25, 2010 at 9:37 pm said:

Can I make a Featured Post List displayed in a home page.

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otuzbes on March 20, 2011 at 6:05 pm said:

thanks a lot
great plugin
take it easy

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aw on June 5, 2011 at 3:44 am said:

excuse me. Please could you explain in detail (complete) how step-by-step how to set the WordPress Featured Post List Plugin. Because I think your explanation is very disjointed. Because I’ve tried but can not work does not even look at the view my website. Adding php code in sidebar.php any errors continue

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güncel blog on July 29, 2011 at 7:14 pm said:

thanks you,very good plugins..

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Sahibini Tanıyan Aslan on August 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm said:

I like this templete very much.. Nice template.. thanks admin..

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tivitub on August 14, 2011 at 1:38 pm said:

derar SAN ..

Can I make a Featured Post List displayed in a page? please

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Ann McQueen on January 5, 2012 at 7:09 am said:

Valuable information. Lucky me I found your web site by accident, and I’m shocked why this accident didn’t happened earlier! I bookmarked it.

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Yus on January 11, 2012 at 9:29 am said:

Can you make the thumbnails displayed?

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Home Shirts on February 13, 2012 at 5:23 pm said:

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Alvina Flicek on April 25, 2012 at 12:14 am said:

Hi!, thank you for this post, it really helps people like me that come from another project setup technology. It really confuses all the settings you see on the targets and build an Build Phases and Rules, I think it will slowly make sense. Anyways I think this was a perfect start for what I was looking.

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