One of the best “Featured posts” plugin

I’ve tested several “featured posts” plugins and most of them use taxonomies; you need to edit the post to add or remove it from featured posts list, and with this action the last modified date of the post is updated as well, even if the content keeps unmodified. This was a serious issue for me, for SEO and for users: they see, in my opinion, a fake last modified date.

I was thinking in building my own plugin using Options API, until I discovered Nelio Featured Posts, which use Options API to store the featured posts list.

Thank you!!