This plugin allow you to mark posts as featured, using checkbox added to the post edit screen in the Publish meta box.
You can then display random, or the latest, featured post in any sidebar using the widget.
The widget provides many flexible options such as choosing whether to display the post meta, featured image and read more link..
Additional there are number of hooks and filters in place to allow developers to extend the plugin, for example making additional post types have the ability to be featured as well as just posts..
Upload the plugin files to the wp-content plugins plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through WordPress plugins screen directly..
Activate the plugin through 'Plugins screen WordPress.
Therefore to add your own markup you would need to remove the action included, create your own function for the markup and then add your function to the action hook.
You would have to use the action hooks in the order to output your new field on the front-end...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
Use the method for the widget.
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