Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads is a WordPress plugin designed to enhance the management and display of featured downloads within your website. This free plugin is specifically intended for users of Easy Digital Downloads, allowing for the efficient showcasing of selected downloads. It offers a user-friendly interface that integrates seamlessly into the WordPress admin, providing a checkbox for marking downloads as featured directly on the edit and quick edit screens. Additionally, users can quickly identify which downloads are featured from the main listing page.

The plugin includes a shortcode feature that enables users to list all featured downloads without needing to input specific IDs. By simply adding the ‘featured’ attribute to the existing [downloads] shortcode, users can display featured items effortlessly. For developers, there’s the option to utilize a template tag for precise placement of featured downloads throughout the theme. Furthermore, custom queries can be built using WP_Query to tailor the output of featured downloads as needed.