Best starred plugins for WordPress
The most popular starred plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP) leads with 100+ active installs, ahead of ZK Advanced Feature Post (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “starred” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 starred plugins
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Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)The most installed starred plugin, with 100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
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ZK Advanced Feature Post10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
All 2 plugins tagged “starred”
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
- 3/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