Title: Featured Posts? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Featured Posts? * [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/) * Hi I was wondering if there was a plugin that would make a “featured posts” place on your blog? This blog [http://www.willisms.com](http://www.willisms.com) has it, but he is using Movable Type. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239887) * Hi I don’t mean to bump, but I can’t seem to find a solution to this .. I really want a “Featured Posts” section * [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239895) * Easy to use something like CG-SameCat (or any other filtered-posts-list plugin) which can show some list of posts that are in a particular category, and tag your ‘featured posts’ with a category… hmm, maybe ‘featured’.. 😉 * You can then easily add and remove things from the list by just tagging/untagging posts… * You could a similar thing using a custom post field to tag featured articles, then show a list of articles with that custom field (I’m not sure what plugin you’d use to do that way, however…). * -d * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239902) * Ok thanks, I will try! * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239906) * I put cg-samecat-plugin in my wp-content/plugins directory and get this error after activating the plugin at the top of my admin: * Warning: main(/home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-plugins/cg-samecat. php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/teen/public_html/ wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php on line 18 * Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg- plugins/cg-samecat.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/ lib/php’) in /home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php on line 18 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php:18) in /home/ teen/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php:18) in /home/ teen/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 7 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php:18) in /home/ teen/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 8 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php:18) in /home/ teen/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 9 * on my blog home page at the top I get these errors: * Warning: main(/home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-plugins/cg-samecat. php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/teen/public_html/ wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php on line 18 * Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg- plugins/cg-samecat.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/ lib/php’) in /home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php on line 18 * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239907) * `Warning: main(/home/teen/public_html/wp-content/plugins/cg-plugins/cg-samecat. php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/teen/public_html/ wp-content/plugins/cg-samecat-plugin.php on line 18` * The above error states that there is no `cg-samecat.php` file in `/wp-content/ plugins/cg-plugins/`. Did you install Chait Gear as directed? * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239909) * Yes I made a folder /cg-plugins and put that file in it * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239910) * BTW: The readme only says this: * INSTALLING SameCat * As a plugin, just drop it into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it. As a hack, put it in the wp folder (or cg-plugins) and include() it in index. php or my-hacks.php. * It doesn’t mention making the new folder and putting that other .php file in it .. I just did that myself after I noticed a new folder. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239911) * You really need to read the whole file that comes with chaitgear – all the stuff has to be uploaded, not just one file, IIRC…. if you have problems, just be patient, David will be along to answer your questions. * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-239914) * I read the “README_FIRST” and I don’t see anything about installing all the files. All I want is the same category/featured post plug in ;/ * Thanks * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-240176) * Is David around? * Thread Starter [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * (@ian2) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-240249) * bump Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Featured Posts?’ is closed to new replies. * 11 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [ian2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ian2/) * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts/#post-240249) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics