=== Plugin Name ===

Contributors: nando.pappalardo, jubstuff
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/it/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=QeFc087zjhKgcjE1wZC3BgVJq7aKowY7yN3xb2letu-oS9GgkUtYkXl95nC&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1fc53a056acd1538874a43d73a07f26b2caf7353d6a9263490
Tags: Post, Posts, highlight, widget, thumbnail, Featured Post with Thumbnail, Featured Post, Post, highlighting best articles
Requires at least: 2.8, PHP4 & PHP5
Tested up to: 3.4.2
Stable tag: 1.5.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 
A really simple way of putting featured posts on your website.

== Description ==

This plugin let's you add - to any spot on your blog's sidebar - a section dedicated to the articles you'd like to highlight. How it works is very simple: once it's installed and activated you can decide which articles to add to the highlights section, how many to display, the display order mode and the size of the image retrieved (it takes the first image in the article and automatically resizes it using the "timthumb.php" script).

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**Support Forum**

For any clarifications, suggestions, or criticism you can leave a comment on <a href="http://forum.yourinspirationweb.com/support-featured-post-with-thumbnail-plugin-f21.html">Forum Support</a>.

**Some Features**

* Specify a title to be shown on the sidebar.
* Choose the number of articles to display in this section.
* Choose the way in which the articles will be ordered.
* Define the dimensions of the image that will be created.

== Installation ==

The Featured Posts can be installed in 3 easy steps:

1. Unzip "featured-posts" archive and put all files into your "plugins" folder (/wp-content/plugins/) or to create a sub directory into the plugins folder (recommanded), like /wp-content/plugins/featured-posts/

2. Activate the plugin

3. Inside the Wordpress admin, go to Appearance > Widgets, Add this widget in the sidebar section in which you want to view it.

**Support Forum**

For any clarifications, suggestions, or criticism you can leave a comment on <a href="http://forum.yourinspirationweb.com/support-featured-post-with-thumbnail-plugin-f21.html">Forum Support</a>.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

== Screenshots ==

1. Add featured post
2. Admin widget Featured Post
3. Widget Featured Posts in action

== Changelog ==

= 1.5.2 = 
* fixed: all featured posts are shown
* fixed: in a post without images the default one is shown

= 1.5.1 = 

* fixed: compatible with previous versions of the plugin

= 1.5 =

* fixed: timthumb vulnerability

= 1.4 = 

* add: ability to use the plugin as a widget and as a function within the template
* add: documentation to use the widget as a function
* add: possibility to using the image provided by the function "the_post_thumbnail()" if it is available

= 1.3 = 

* add: brazilian language (thanks to fernando lopes)
* fixed: problem with the float image

= 1.2 = 

* fixed: problem with the draft post

= 1.1 = 

* fixed: resolved conflict with wordpress sticky post 

= 1.0 = (Initial Version)

* Italian Language
* English Language
* Ability to choose how many posts to display on the sidebar
* Ordering:
    Random
    Title
    Date
    Author
    Modified
    ID
* Possibility to choose the size of thumbnails.

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.5.2 =
This version fixes the problem of featured posts not showing.
