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You no longer need this addon to use the Featured Downloads feature.<\/p>\n\n<h4>About this Addon<\/h4>\n\n<p>This plugin requires <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-digital-downloads\/\" title=\"Easy Digital Downloads\">Easy Digital Downloads<\/a>. It's aimed at developers\/clients who need to show a list of featured downloads.<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Provides a template tag so finely-tuned placement of featured downloads in your theme is possible.<\/li>\n<li>Provides a shortcode which will simply list all the featured downloads, without the need to enter any IDs.<\/li>\n<li>Provides a simple interface for managing featured downloads in the WordPress admin. A \"feature download\" checkbox will be added to each download edit\/publish screen as well as the quick edit boxes. At a glance you'll also be able to see which downloads have been featured on your website from the main download listing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h4>Shortcode Usage<\/h4>\n\n<p>Add the \"featured\" attribute to the existing [downloads] shortcode provided by Easy Digital Downloads:<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>[downloads featured=\"yes\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<h4>Template Tag Usage<\/h4>\n\n<p>The following code can be used to show the featured downloads anywhere in your theme:<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>echo do_shortcode( '[downloads featured=\"yes\"]' );\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<p>You can include any other attributes supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.easydigitaldownloads.com\/article\/224-downloads\">[downloads] shortcode<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Building your own Query<\/h4>\n\n<p>To build your own query using <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Class_Reference\/WP_Query\" title=\"WP_Query\">WP_Query<\/a> you can use the <code>meta_key<\/code> parameter with a value of <code>edd_feature_download<\/code>. 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