Title: Adding a featured post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding a featured post

 *  [dpearce04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpearce04/)
 * (@dpearce04)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-featured-post-1/)
 * I have the following code inside my header tempate
 *     ```
       <div id="board_post">
       		<h3>Featured Post</h3>
       <?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=1&orderby=rand"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
       		<h2><?php the_title_limited(70); ?></h2>
       		<p><?php the_content_limit(300); ?></p>
       		<p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Read More</a></p>
       <?php endwhile;?>
       	</div>
       ```
   
 * Instead of having it display a random featured post I would like it to display
   a specific post ID, can you help me do this?

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 *  Thread Starter [dpearce04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpearce04/)
 * (@dpearce04)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-featured-post-1/#post-1174072)
 * bump
 *  Thread Starter [dpearce04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpearce04/)
 * (@dpearce04)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-featured-post-1/#post-1174143)
 * bump

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-featured-post-1/#post-1174143)
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