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Featplug is a standalone script / wordpress plugin that can mine your WordPress posts or any other data and look for images suiting a given dimension and generates 'featured' section for your site using the found items.

The featured section, includes a resized image (banner) with the label, description and link of the related post or data.

Featplug is a architectural plugin with input layers and output templates.

Input Layer -> Featplug -> Output Template

Currently it supports WordPress and standalone as input layers. But it's very easy to integrate it to any other blog / cms / forum software or even in your static site.

Demos & Sites Using

To see demos check plugins homepage and for a list of sites using it, look here.