Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP) provides an easy interface to feature posts in your WordPress blog. Simply check the ‘featured stars’ associated with each post in WordPress’ post listing screen to feature or…
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- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 16 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 2.9 (latest is 7.1)
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|---|---|
| featured | >100 |
| featured posts | >100 |
| Highlight | >100 |
| star | >100 |
| starred | #58 |
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About Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFP…
From the official readme · v1.4Description
Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP) provides an easy interface to feature posts in your WordPress blog. Simply check the ‘featured stars’ associated with each post in WordPress’ post listing screen to feature or unfeature a post. This info is posted immediately to your WordPress settings using AJAX.
This interface for featuring/unfeaturing posts is a big step up from other featured posts plugins, which make you enter a string of IDs.
Additionally, YAFPP provides a number of output options for WP developers – you can echo out or return an HTML formatted string of featured posts, return an array of featured post data or manipulate WordPress’ The_Loop.
Using these display options you can easily display a thumbnail with each featured post, or otherwise modify the list of featured posts according to your setup.
Not a developer? Beginners can also display thumbnails with their featured posts by installing YAPB. YAFPP interfaces nicely with YAPB, and allows you to display YAPB thumbnails along with your normal featured posts output.
Please read the complete documentation for YAFPP
License
Copyright 2009-2010 Jon Raasch – Released under the FreeBSD License – License details
Installation
Basic installation of YAFPP is simple:
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Upload the folder
yet-another-featured-posts-plugininto the/wp-content/plugins/directory -
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
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Select featured posts by clicking the ‘featured stars’ within the post listing in ‘Posts > Edit’
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Place
<?php if ( function_exists('get_featured_posts') ) get_featured_posts(); ?>wherever you want a list of featured posts in your templates
Output options
For more advanced users there are a number of output options. Simply pass an option array: <?php get_featured_posts(array( 'method' => 'return' ); ?>. In this example <?php get_featured_posts(); ?> would return the formatted string of data instead of echoing it.
Output options include:
echo: (Default) Echoes an HTML formatted string of featured postsreturn: Returns an HTML formatted string of featured postsarr: Returns a PHP array of data related to the featured poststhe_loop: Alters the query for WordPress’ The_Loop
See the FAQs for more info on output options.
Read the complete documentation
Changelog
1.4
- Builds functionality to allow featured pages as well as posts
- Optimizes database calls within featured post loop
- Improves sterilization of content via native WordPress methods
- Thanks to Paul Clark for these contributions
1.3
- Fixes image path bug (thanks to Greg Boggs for his help here)
1.2
- URL and descriptions bug fixed
- Cleaning up bugs in YAPB support and better photo output
1.1
- Fixing errors in documentation
1.0
- First major release of YAFPP
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Is Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… free?
Yes. Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… safe to use in 2026?
Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites and was last updated 16 years ago, and scores 25/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Yet Another Featured Posts Plug…?
Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 31,956 times since it launched in October 2009. It was downloaded 124 times in the last 30 days.
Does Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… work with WordPress 7.1?
Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… is officially tested up to WordPress 2.9.2, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… last updated?
The latest version, 1.4, was released on April 23, 2010 (16 years ago).
Who makes Yet Another Featured Posts Plug…?
Yet Another Featured Posts Plug… is developed and maintained by JonRaasch.
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