Post Type Spotlight

Post Type Spotlight lets administrators mark any post type — posts, pages, attachments, or a custom post type — as featured, and then query, style, and sort by that flag.

A featured post:

• receives featured and featured-{$post_type} classes through the post_class filter,
• shows a star in a Featured column on that post type's admin list screen,
• is assigned the hidden pts_feature_tax taxonomy term featured, which makes it queryable with a standard tax_query.

Why not sticky posts?

WordPress' built-in sticky functionality only applies to the core post post type. Post Type Spotlight works on any post type you enable, and because it stores the flag in a taxonomy rather than post meta, querying featured content is an indexed taxonomy lookup rather than a meta query.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Querying featured posts
• Development