Featured posts

Hi there,

I have i problem creating featured posts. I recently went from joomla to wordpress and i don’t see option to mark post as featured. Does WordPress have that feature by default or do i need some sort of plugin in order to set post to featured like in joomla?

Also i tried to look for a widget that could show featured items in it so that it automatically pulls the featured picture and intro text in it, but i didn’t have any luck. Do any of you know a good solution to this?

Thanks