Best featured posts plugins for WordPress
The most popular featured posts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Relevant leads with 800+ active installs, ahead of AK Featured Post Widget (400+) and WP Featured Posts (300+). All 27 plugins tagged “featured posts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 featured posts plugins
- 1.
RelevantThe most installed featured posts plugin, with 800+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 13 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 2.
AK Featured Post Widget400+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 3.
WP Featured Posts300+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 4.
Featured Posts Pro100+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 5.
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 6.
Recent & Featured Posts Widget90+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 7.
Tidyhive Featured Posts60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 8.
Featured Post Exclude Category for Genesis50+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 9.
Featured Posts Widget20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 10.
Featured Posts Slideshow20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.
All 27 plugins tagged “featured posts”
Relevant
Down in the last 7 days:55#7,400by bestweblayout1 year ago
Add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to your WordPress website. Connect your blog readers with a relevant content.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.5(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
AK Featured Post Widget
Up in the last 7 days:15#9,838by kaser10 years ago
A widget that you can use to display your blog posts, custom post types, or woocommerce products!
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Featured Posts
Up in the last 7 days:1#10,320by nutttaro5 months ago
WP Featured Posts is a plugin choose featured posts, sortable and sticky custom post type and compatible with WPML.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Featured Posts Pro
Up in the last 7 days:27#14,824by thapa.laxman7 years ago
This plugin gives Administrator/Editor an easy option to mark posts, pages & custom posts as featured posts and provides a widget to list the rece …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)
Down in the last 7 days:19#15,924by JonRaasch16 years ago
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin provides an easy AJAX interface to feature posts, with thumbnails & other display options for featured posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent & Featured Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:193#17,200by graysea10 years ago
Display recent posts or manually selected posts with thumbnail images. Show the excerpt directly on the page or as a dropdown.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tidyhive Featured Posts
Down in the last 7 days:149#19,419by Mohit Chawla9 years ago
Set featured posts with single click, no page refresh from admin panel.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Post Exclude Category for Genesis
Up in the last 7 days:208#20,090by AMP-MODE5 years ago
A new featured posts widget for Genesis themes that allows you to exclude a category when selecting All Categories in the featured post widget.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:576#25,561by tomsinger13 years ago
A Wordpress plugin to create a Featured Posts widget
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Posts Slideshow
#25,855by IWEBIX16 years ago
Featured Posts Slideshow is a wonderfull Wordpress Javascript Slideshow. It displays as many Post's images as you want.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Custom Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:224#28,592by linkhousemedia15 years ago
Widget that allows custom post types and taxonomies to be displayed. Works well with Custom Post Type UI and Taxonomy Images plugins.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:290#30,049by brianmyrick13 years ago
Modification of StudioPress Featured Post Widget that enables an override link to the category.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Scrollarama
#30,144by maltpress15 years ago
Creates a loop of recent posts (up to 10) with images, within selected category, and scrolls through with jQuery effects
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Featured News
Up in the last 7 days:296#33,941by Fluent-Themes1 year ago
WP Featured News plugin allows you to display your posts anywhere of your web-pages with 10 powerful and creatively designed post blocks.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ZK Advanced Feature Post
#33,966by vnzinki15 years ago
AJAX feature post function for your wordpress. Especially you can get featured post for custom category only.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Posts Widget
#36,696by DannyCooper9 years ago
Add a selection of posts to your sidebar or another widget location.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
YD Featured Box Widget
Up in the last 7 days:6,202#38,377by Yann at WP&Co15 years ago
Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
4bzCore
#41,841by 4bzthemes11 years ago
A collection of shortcodes, widgets, a shortcode builder, multiple featured images, a related posts module, and much more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Today
#43,558by Amit Kumar Singh15 years ago
Featured Today shows featured articles like it is shown on linkedin today.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Awesome Featured Post Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8,174#43,991by accreteinfosolution9 years ago
sidebar, taxonomy, post meta, plugin, wordpress Requires at least: 4.4.2 Tested up to: 4.7.2 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CCR Featured Posts
Down in the last 7 days:1,384#46,289by CodexCoder12 years ago
Featured Posts Widget shows by selected categories
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Launchpad Popular Posts
Up in the last 7 days:4#47,057by Vinhdd7 years ago
This is a very simple, easy to use plugin which creates a widget that can be used to display Popular Posts, Related Posts, Featured Posts, Recent Post …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sticky Posts Limit
#47,514by WP Passion5 months ago
Limit the number of sticky posts automatically. Keep your featured posts clean, controlled, and clutter-free.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popular Posts for Divi
Up in the last 7 days:13,818#59,083by Trusty Plugins1 year ago
Count post views and display your popular posts with charts and analytics with divi theme.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GridNews Featured Grid Slider
#70,209by smart159 months ago
Advanced Featured Grid & Slider for any Post Type & Taxonomy with responsive design and touch support.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quovex Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:19,450#74,302by Akshat Saxena24 days ago
Customizable post grid, magazine & featured posts showcase, announcement banner, and post carousel blocks for Gutenberg.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day