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I am trying to find a way to mark certain categories in the backend with some sort of 'featured' flag. I would then retrieve those selected categories and display them on a page.

I couldn't find any featured category plugin which does this; I'm wondering if there is a simple way to do this in WP core.

Note: I don't want featured category index pages, widgets, category images, etc. I simply want to be able to check a box (or similar) next to certain categories, so they are marked as special. Then I need to create a query to retrieve only those.

Is this possible?

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  • yes it is possible.
    – user9447
    Aug 17, 2017 at 17:05
  • The only proper way I can think of is to assign a custom field to categories and then filter them based on that. Take a look at this answer.
    – Johansson ♦
    Aug 17, 2017 at 17:16

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Yes! Register a taxonomy.

I usually call it something like "Promotions." (this allows for more to be added easily in the future) From there, create the term "featured."

In your template, uses wp_query to display your featured articles, taxonomy parameters

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