Giving your selected content more exposure via featuring it is a good idea because this way: (1) You attract more attention to your best articles (or those that you need more attention for); (2) You allow your best and most important posts to be easier accessed by search engine bots. The three WordPress plugins compared in this post have two things in common: They all allow to select which posts to feature manually (there are other types of plugins that automatically generate the list by the number of comments, amount f traffic, visitors’ preferences, etc; this post doesn’t mention those at all); They are all SEO-friendly (the links to the posts are in HTML and easily accessed by spiders). How the list is created The placement Additional settings YAFPP You pick any posts Insert anywhere in the template Can display excerpt; you can set permissions to edit the list WordPress Featured Post List2 WITH IMAGE You pick any posts Insert anywhere in the template Can display image Hundred Feature Post List First selected then random (configurable) Sidebar (via widget) CSS class on the feature container and / or widget Now, a few details on the installation process: Yet Another Featured Posts