It’s always good to show your killer post to your readers, so that you can reduce your blog’s bounce rate as well as your readers won’t miss any important information on your blog. But showing your featured articles manually is not a good idea, why not to use featured post plugin for self hosted WordPress blogs? These plugins are user-friendly and can be installed in minutes to your WordPress blog.
Here are 5 attractive featured post plugins for your WordPress blog, you can choose any of them according to your WordPress themes and requirements:
Front Slider WordPress Plugin
Front slider WordPress plugin is for the bloggers who want to add unlimited featured post including text and images. You can easily customize the features of Front Slider according to your requirements like choosing categories, speed, duration or styling.
NextGEN WordPress Plugin
NextGEN is for all image lovers having image gallery with Flash Slideshow. If you have a photography blog then NextGEN is worth giving a try. It gives you many options like you can create your own set of images and upload in a zip-file and also watermark your images.
Slidepress WordPress Plugin
Slidepress is for bloggers of all niche, you can easily make your blog attractive and add featured post easily with this plugin. It is fully customizable, dynamic media player for their photos and videos.
WP Content SlideShow WordPress Plugin
WP Content Slideshow allows you up to 5 posts in a slideshow. You can display images and title of the posts with small description of the post. You can easily customize the number of post, height, width and colors of the plugin.
Also Read: Show Simple and Decent Featured Posts Slideshow WordPress Smooth Slider
Featurific WordPress Plugin
Featurific WordPress plugin integrates easily with the WordPress.com Stats plugin to select most popular post from the blog. This plugin is easy to customize the display and properties of the plugin and provides an array or user-customizable templates.
All above featured post plugins are useful to let your readers know about popular and useful articles on your blog. Do let us know which featured article plugin you use for your WordPress blog?
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Hey Ruchi,
Great plugins… !! I am thinking to adding Featured Box on my blog. !! Will surely try these plugins.. !! “Front Slider” looks great .. !!
Thanks for sharing this awesome Post
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~Dev
Yeah Front Slider is really good choice..Go ahead Dev
NextGen and slipdepress are my all time favs. using them for a looong time now. Nice list.
Thanks for your feedback Aritra.
i prefer to use the sticky post feature than using a seprate plugin for the above….this reduces loading rate of my blog
Thanks for sharing tip Tushar.
Good list Ruchi thanks for sharing, i love Slidepress WordPress Plugin
Glad you like it Mobile Clues.
hi Ruchi
NextGEN is my fav. i already using it on my blog…… great list of Plug in. Thinking to use slide share also.
Yeah…Slide share is good option. Glad you like the list.
Was trying to add in some plugin for my client site. And, I found this wonderful site! Thanks for sharing~
Wow, I just realized it’s been so long since I have featured a post on my blog that I forgot about the feature. Haha, well maybe these will come in handy.
Finally! I found a blog post with featured all the best ‘Featured Posts’ Plugins, which show Images! I served around the web, and I can’t find a page which tell me how exactly the plugins looks like until I reach here. Thank you so much, and i definitely try out the plugins
Ding Neng, Singapore
Thank you. Do you know CU3R? I’m looking something like that but without Flash.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing the best plugins.I some of the plugins mentioned above but what i found is most of these plugins increasing my webpage load time.Is there any way to add a slider with out plugins?
Plugins, which show Images! I served around the web, and I can’t find a page which tell me how exactly the plugins looks like until I reach here. Thank you so much, and i definitely try out the plugins
is ther a plugin that allowed a video in the slide ?
Hey I am impressed with your featured posts collection, but these all sliders will make the home page really heavy,
I just found a featured post ticker, which is really lite, thought of sharing with you
http://webstutorial.com/wordpress-make-featured-post-jquery-ticker-wordpress-make-featured-posts/content-management-system-cms
Thanks for sharing the best plugins.I some of the plugins mentioned above but what i found is most of these plugins increasing my webpage load time.Is there any way to add a slider with out plugins?
Its my bad luck that none of them worked as i expected only because of my theme.
But thanks for this list and these are working but i didn’t get them as they look in demo.