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Plugin Description
This plugin allow you to mark posts (by default) as featured, using a checkbox added to the post edit screen in the Publish meta box. You can then display a random, or the latest, featured post in any sidebar using the widget. The widget provides many flexible options such as choosing whether to display the post meta, featured image and a read more link.
Through extensible features, additional widget options can be added and the widget output can easily be customised. Additional there are a number of hooks and filters in place to allow developers to extend the plugin, for example making additional post types have the ability to be featured as well as just posts.
You can read the accompanying blog about this plugin here: http://markwilkinson.me/2015/12/flexible-featured-post-widget/
Screenshots
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The widgets options.
