Best featured plugins for WordPress
106 plugins tagged “featured” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.
Featured Image Widget Slider
#25,077by CuvixSystem12 years ago
Get 10 newest featured image from a selected category in a sidebar widget as a slider.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- 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
Page Featured Image
Up in the last 7 days:477#26,040by silver53012 years ago
Enables Page Thumbnails support.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Type Spotlight
Up in the last 7 days:202#26,627by Linchpin1 month ago
Easily allows you to designate posts, pages, attachments and custom post types as featured.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Thumbnail Column
Down in the last 7 days:120#29,027by silver53012 years ago
Adds a new column to posts list for featured images.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Feature On Homepage
Down in the last 7 days:90#29,488by Matt Royal12 years ago
Easily feature pages or posts on your homepage using a shortcode and the new HomePage Features metabox.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Integration for ChurchSuite
Up in the last 7 days:319#29,671by Alwyn Barry1 month ago
Integration for ChurchSuite is a plugin to enable display of data from ChurchSuite JSON feeds
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Make featured image link to blog post
Down in the last 7 days:746#30,620by Voordelig ICT2 months ago
Adds a function to the function.php file. This function will make the featured image link back to the blog the image was inserted.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Category
Up in the last 7 days:1,336#31,849by Clifton Griffin15 years ago
Displays recent posts from a specified category in a customizable box on the home page of the blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Set Featured Attachment
#32,264by arkapravamajumder12 years ago
This plugin will create "set featured attachment" like "set featured image on post and page".
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lazy content Slider
#32,388by leethompson13 years ago
This Plugin will show the latest images from a catergory. You can add the slider to any page or post using shortcut code or adding to the theme php.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatically Set 1st Image as Featured
#33,111by Ramez.bd14 years ago
Great Plugin, You 'll feel better and shorten the time...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
OS media
Down in the last 7 days:821#33,913by mario marino10 years ago
For Featured video contents based on the latest HTML5 Video-js library (5.2.1). It works with local & remote media, Amazon S3, Youtube & Vimeo …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 2/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 First then Random for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:7,639#35,514by Vitalii Rizo9 years ago
This is a small plugin for Wordpress which adds extra product sorting option: Featured First then Random. It can be very useful for stores with a larg …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Chip Get Image
Up in the last 7 days:2,416#36,361by life.object15 years ago
A flexible image script for adding thumbnails and feature images to the post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show Category Posts Fade in/out
Up in the last 7 days:5,925#37,355by geegood.com16 years ago
The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category as a "featured" post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latest Post
Up in the last 7 days:5,917#37,417by bryanmytko16 years ago
Displays your most recent post as a featured post, on only the first page of your Wordpress blog
- 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
BuddyPress Sitewide Featured Posts
Up in the last 7 days:1,270#38,746by grosbouff16 years ago
This is a BuddyPress plugin that allows you to select and display featured posts sitewide.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Featured Menus
#39,027by Topher11 years ago
Provides a metabox on posts and pages listing existing WordPress Menus.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Post Manager
Up in the last 7 days:4,509#39,159by srcoley16 years ago
Let's you select a specific category for featured posts, and manage those selections on the WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Now Featuring WordPress Widget
#39,994by Brahmina11 years ago
The Now Featuring Wordpress Widget allows you to showcase featured content from your posts or pages on your sidebar in multiple ways.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Super Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:5,491#39,998by Jeff Stieler16 years ago
Feature posts in your sidebar. Select posts by Blog (multisite), individually, by Post Type, or by Tag/Category/Taxonomy.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Menu Badger
Up in the last 7 days:4,968#41,173by squidstack10 years ago
This is a plugin to add a badge to a menu item. If you create a new page or feature on your website you can easily add a badge to highlight it.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fancy Transitions Featured Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:2,401#43,300by KopiPejst16 years ago
Creating featured posts image gallery with fancy transition effects.
- 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
Multisite Featured Blog
Up in the last 7 days:2,973#43,695by Abbas S14 years ago
This plugin helps to create a widget and shortcode to create featured blogs
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Featured Users
#43,861by Jeremy Selph7 years ago
Allows the administrator to make users featured. All it does is give the user a custom meta field called jsfeatured_user. Now available are a shortcod …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Force Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:71#44,641by Jonathan Bardo11 years ago
Ever wanted to force a user to publish a post with a featured image of a certain dimension? Search no more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Post Type
#44,880by Ranjith Siji16 years ago
Displays most recent posts from a specific post type and a drop down to select previous entries.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
e-Commerce Multi Currency Support
Up in the last 7 days:1,970#45,642by beshkin14 years ago
e-Commerce Multi Currency support is a Add-on Currency Widget that allows your customers to view prices of products and Cart in the Currency they desi …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Featured Image
#45,670by silver53012 years ago
Enables Post Thumbnails support.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Best-Of Comments
Down in the last 7 days:2,208#45,754by David Miller10 years ago
Best-Of Comments allows users to tag exceptional comments and display a randomly selected list of those comments wherever they choose in their theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hikari Featured Comments
Down in the last 7 days:852#46,057hikari-featured-comments16 years ago
It adds 3 new custom fields to comments (Featured, Buried, Children buried), allowing you to add special properties to each of them.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple custom post likes
#46,069by richymilo11 years ago
Appends a custom likes box that allows a user to like any post type from the front end.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
Featured Comments
Down in the last 7 days:10,367#46,160by andreu14 years ago
This plugin provides a widget that let you select the comments you want to display as featured or important.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Weighted Random Authors
Down in the last 7 days:7,910#47,109by Jake Goldman17 years ago
This widget selects a limited list of random authors, weighted towards authors with more published posts. Easily configure numer of authors, widget t …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Themeable Sticky Posts
#47,289by Ben Huson16 years ago
A widget to display featured sticky posts. The built-in template displays a simple list of links, or you can create a template file in your theme for …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AB Show Thumbs On Post
Down in the last 7 days:3,103#47,513by abjelosevic8 years ago
Plugin that show featured image on post list.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Caption on Featured
Down in the last 7 days:2,233#47,865by Jens Hunt11 years ago
Image Caption on Featured adds the caption on the featured image.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress
Down in the last 7 days:10,379#48,462by Josh Eaton12 years ago
Lets the admin add "featured" or "buried" css class to selected bbPress replies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CS Require featured image to publish posts
#50,116by Chetan Satasiya4 years ago
This plugin will add the restriction to publish post without featured image.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Term Featured Image Fallback
#54,506by Eduardo Lazaro9 years ago
Enables featured images for terms of any category, tag or custom taxonomy and set them as fallback for posts of any post type.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day

Featured Posts Widget for Extra Theme
#60,452by Robert Walaski8 years ago
Featured posts in Extra Theme (by Elegant Themes) is widget plugin for displaying featured posts in widget area.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
URL To Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:8,723#61,966by François-Régis Ferry10 months ago
Set any external image URL as your post's featured image automatically.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pick-n-Post Quote
Down in the last 7 days:10,823#64,074by bigacelloy7 years ago
Utilizes the native WordPress custom meta field. Both Gutenberg and Classic Editor supports Custom Fields.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

JS Integration for ChurchSuite
#67,718by Alwyn Barry1 month ago
JS Integration for ChurchSuite is provides ChurchSuite event and smallgroup details for display in a Wordpress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Anton Featured Events Manager
#72,584by Anthony Carbon7 years ago
Anton Featured Events Manager is an addons of Events Manager created By Marcus Sykes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Circles
#74,214by sental8 years ago
Creates circles to show featured items for a website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day