=== Plugin Name ===

Contributors: Nando Pappalardo
Tags: Post, Posts, highlight, widget, thumbnail, Featured Post with Thumbnail, Featured Post, Post, highlighting best articles,
Requires at least: 2.8, PHP4 & PHP5
Tested up to: 2.9
Stable tag: 1.2
 
A really simple way of putting featured posts on your website.

== Description ==

This plugin let's you add - to any spot on your blog's sidebar - a section dedicated to the articles you'd like to highlight. How it works is very simple: once it's installed and activated you can decide which articles to add to the highlights section, how many to display, the display order mode and the size of the image retrieved (it takes the first image in the article and automatically resizes it using the "timthumb.php" script).


**Some Features**

* Specify a title to be shown on the sidebar.
* Choose the number of articles to display in this section.
* Choose the way in which the articles will be ordered.
* Define the dimensions of the image that will be created.

== Installation ==

The Featured Posts can be installed in 3 easy steps:

1. Unzip "featured-posts" archive and put all files into your "plugins" folder (/wp-content/plugins/) or to create a sub directory into the plugins folder (recommanded), like /wp-content/plugins/featured-posts/

2. Activate the plugin

3. Inside the Wordpress admin, go to Appearance > Widgets, Add this widget in the sidebar section in which you want to view it.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= A question that someone might have =

An answer to that question.

= What about foo bar? =

Answer to foo bar dilemma.


== Screenshots ==

1. Add featured post
2. Admin widget Featured Post
3. Widget Featured Posts in action

== Changelog ==

= 1.2 = 

* fixed: problem with the draft post

= 1.1 = 

* fixed: resolved conflict with wordpress sticky post 

= 1.0 = (Initial Version)

* Italian Language
* English Language
* Ability to choose how many posts to display on the sidebar
* Ordering:
    Random
    Title
    Date
    Author
    Modified
    ID
* Possibility to choose the size of thumbnails.