Title: Featured Post
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Featured Post

 *  Resolved [Jabbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabbok/)
 * (@jabbok)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-post-7/)
 * The theme I’m using has tabs in the sidebar for “Popular” “Recent” and “Featured”.
   I’m assuming that the “Featured” tab will display a list of “Featured” posts 
   but I can’t find how you make a “Featured” post.
    A search for “Featured Post”
   returns a long list of plugins but no further explanation. Why would a theme 
   come with this “Featured” tab if the ability to use it depends on a separate 
   plugin? Am I missing something here?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-post-7/#post-2441497)
 * just a guess: use the category ‘featured’ on the post
 * if this is not it, please provide more information about your theme, such as 
   name and download link.
 *  Thread Starter [Jabbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabbok/)
 * (@jabbok)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-post-7/#post-2441548)
 * I used that category “featured” on my last two posts just to see if there were
   any changes and there weren’t.
 * I’m using the “Mentor” Theme from FabThemes(dot)com.
 * Here is my site: [Pickstroke Parlor](http://parlor.pickstroke.com)
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-post-7/#post-2441565)
 * in tabs.php of your theme, this is the query that calls the ‘featured’ posts,
   whic indicates that there is a theme option where you can set the category (using
   the category slug ?) for the featured posts:
 *     ```
       <?php
       		$gldcat = get_option('ment_gldcat');
       		$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name='.$gldcat.'&showposts=5');
       		while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;
       	?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Jabbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabbok/)
 * (@jabbok)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-post-7/#post-2441608)
 * Wow. That was embarrassing! LOL… I should have looked more closely on the Theme
   Settings Page. However, I LOVE learning this stuff!
 * Thanks for the help. This problem has been RESOLVED!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jabbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabbok/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-post-7/#post-2441608)
 * Status: resolved

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