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featured-item-metabox

Featured Item Metabox

Quickly add a metabox to any post type for marking a post as featured. Toggle featured status even more quickly from the posts lists/ quick edit scre …

featured metabox
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54.4% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.96
Limit access to admins?

Limit access to admins?: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Is there an easy way to limit the access of the metabox to admins only?
complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.96
Broken

Broken: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Broken This plugin is broken with wordpress 3.6.1 This plugin is broken with wordpress 3.6.1 I didn’t see on the first page that it’s Compatible up to: 3.5.2 .
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
not working with multiple post types

not working with multiple post types: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
My query is: $args = array( 'post_type' => array ('post','page','newsletter'), 'meta_query' => array( array( 'key' => '_featured', 'value' => 'yes', ) ) ); $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query($args); But it displays only posts and pages, not the custom post type “newsletter”.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Expiration on Featured Posts

Expiration on Featured Posts: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Expiration on Featured Posts Hello!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
very flexible for theme development

very flexible for theme development: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
very flexible for theme development I was looking for a way to have sticky / featured posts AND pages and custom posts.
mixed support · low severity · relevance 0.57
screen_icon is deprecated

screen_icon is deprecated: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
screen_icon is deprecated This plugin works very well with wordpress 5.3, however in the settings screen there is this notice.

Competitor Context

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Hide Featured Image weak incumbent · intel 79.7 · weakness 72.3
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Featured Video Plus weak incumbent · intel 77.4 · weakness 68.1
weak incumbent
stale update history 26 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test video embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
source 1 source 2
Featured Image Admin Thumb weak incumbent · intel 76.7 · weakness 67.4
weak incumbent
stale update history 14 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
source 1 source 2
Better REST API Featured Images praise owner · intel 74.5 · weakness 65.2
praise owner
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test images embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
source 1 source 2
YITH WooCommerce Featured Video praise owner · intel 73.7 · weakness 61.3
praise owner
below-average rating 39 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Featured Post praise owner · intel 73.7 · weakness 64.5
praise owner
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
External URL Featured Image praise owner · intel 72.8 · weakness 64.4
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Bulk Images to Posts praise owner · intel 72.4 · weakness 63.2
praise owner
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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mixed screen_icon is deprecated support · 2020-02-17T10:18:41+00:00 · low severity · featured

screen_icon is deprecated: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: screen_icon is deprecated This plugin works very well with wordpress 5.3, however in the settings screen there is this notice.
compatibility missing feature reliable reporting content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
complaint Limit access to admins? support · 2014-12-10T06:19:59+00:00 · high severity · featured

Limit access to admins?: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is there an easy way to limit the access of the metabox to admins only?
security bugs missing feature easy content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
complaint Expiration on Featured Posts support · 2014-05-05T17:19:41+00:00 · medium severity · featured

Expiration on Featured Posts: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Expiration on Featured Posts Hello!
missing feature support reliable value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed not working with multiple post types support · 2013-12-20T17:23:51+00:00 · medium severity · featured

not working with multiple post types: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: My query is: $args = array( 'post_type' => array ('post','page','newsletter'), 'meta_query' => array( array( 'key' => '_featured', 'value' => 'yes', ) ) ); $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query($args); But it displays only posts and pages, not the custom post type “newsletter”.
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
praise very flexible for theme development (5 stars) review · 2013-11-26T17:37:02+00:00 · medium severity · featured

very flexible for theme development: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: very flexible for theme development I was looking for a way to have sticky / featured posts AND pages and custom posts.
compatibility missing feature quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
complaint Broken (1 star) review · 2013-10-07T14:58:46+00:00 · high severity · featured

Broken: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Broken This plugin is broken with wordpress 3.6.1 This plugin is broken with wordpress 3.6.1 I didn’t see on the first page that it’s Compatible up to: 3.5.2 .
bugs compatibility support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin