WordPress Display specific/multiple posts as Featured Post List Plugins
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>”, $after = </li>”) ?>
If you like this plugin, please leave your comments.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
November 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
thanks!great plugin
January 4th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Hello. Unfortunately I have not been able to make it work. I tried both ways: have it in a text widget (I would prefer this one) or have it pasted into sidebar.php. Can you please advice me?
Thanks!
January 5th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Hi Mihail,
so sorry about you, you need to paste it direct into sidebar.php, it wont work with widget.
try this in your sidebar.php
<li><h2>Featured Posts</h2>
<ul>
< ?php featuredpostsList(); ?>
</ul>
</li>
and must activate plugin
it will work
January 8th, 2009 at 12:57 am
I’ve tried this in wp 2.7 and it doesn’t function properly. It will only display the last record in the posts table, no matter what post id’s I set.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:32 am
NO, i have checked it from my end also today after get your reply.. even i know many guy using 2.7 version with this plugins, and not face any problem yet..
check from your end again,
it should works
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
What do you mean by post id , how can I get my post IDs,
When ever I give 1 , 2 or 3 its just displaying one post all the time
February 4th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Girish,
When ever you try to edit any post in admin panel, you will see a ID in query string ( explorer address bar) that is the ID of that post,
you can use that to display as featured list
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hey,
When I’m trying to use <?php featuredpostsList($before = “, $after = “) ?>, I get an error…
Anyone tried it?
Thanks
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:02 am
Please try to use this < ?php featuredpostsList(); ?>
or you can use your code in template like this
< ?php featuredpostsList($before = ‘<li>’, $after = ‘</li>’) ?>
February 25th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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?
February 26th, 2009 at 6:55 am
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
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 am
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
March 12th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
thanks! amazing plugin
March 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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
April 1st, 2009 at 6:38 am
oh.. i have tested this on tag and category page also.. can you show me your url? to check me once.
thanks
SAN
April 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
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.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:31 am
Is it able to a list on a post/page?
April 10th, 2009 at 5:55 am
No Page, Just for Post Id’s please
April 13th, 2009 at 4:49 am
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
April 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
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 ,
April 13th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
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.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Is it possible to make the settings page (to set the featured post list) available to Editors as well as administrators?
May 4th, 2009 at 8:18 am
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May 8th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Can I make a Featured Post List displayed in a page?
May 9th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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..
May 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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.
May 11th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Yes.. it possible that any other plugin messing it, please check and update to us about that plugin, so we can fix that
May 17th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Some Demo?
May 20th, 2009 at 8:06 am
thanks Marc
May 29th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Demo: ?check right side top on w3cgallery “featured post” section
June 29th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Thanks! It works best for me!
July 1st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
thanks Marc, this a great plugin
October 15th, 2009 at 6:33 am
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?
October 16th, 2009 at 8:11 am
No, plugin doesnot have any limitation, i can multiple title, but you need to add Post id in wp-admin
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