Title: Featured Post Manager
Author: srcoley
Published: <strong>October 13, 2010</strong>
Last modified: October 13, 2010

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# Featured Post Manager

 By [srcoley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/srcoley/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-post-manager.zip)

 * [Details](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post-manager/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post-manager/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post-manager/#installation)
 * [Development](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post-manager/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post-manager/)

## Description

Let’s you select a specific category for featured posts, and manage those selections
on the WordPress dashboard.

Most WordPress themes have you manage featured posts by selecting a “Featured” or“
Top News” category for your special articles. This method has worked pretty well
for both me and others. It’s only downfall is that you must go to edit that post
in order to “feature” or “unfeature” it. Well I’m putting an end to that. With this
plugin, you can select which posts get featured right on the dashboard.

To put it simply: You can manage categories from the WordPress Dashboard.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The Dashboard Widget before you select a category to manage.
 * [[
 * The Dashboard Widget after you select a category to manage.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `featured-post-manager` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to the WordPress Dashboard and you will see the Featured Post Manager Widget
    at the top
 4. The widget will ask you to select a category that you wish to manage. Do so, then
    click “Manage!”
 5. Now you’ll see a list of posts that have the category assigned to them. You can
    hover over them and click “Remove” to remove them from the list
 6. To add a new post to the list, select the post from the dropdown and click “Feature!”

## FAQ

  Will this plugin make a featured slider widget

No, this plugin doesn’t alter your theme what-so-ever

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Featured Post Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ srcoley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/srcoley/)

[Translate “Featured Post Manager” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-post-manager)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-post-manager/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-post-manager/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-post-manager/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-post-manager/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * This is the first version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post-manager/)
 * Tags
 * [feature](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feature/)[featured](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured/)
   [manager](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/manager/)[post](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [posts](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-post-manager/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ srcoley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/srcoley/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-post-manager/)

## Donate

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