To add the featured posts to the home page, we will use the Featured Posts plugin available at http://wpmudev.org/project/Featured-Posts.
Extract the plugin to the
/wp-content/plugins
directory.Open
featured-posts.php
and look for the line that says$featured_blogs = array(1,2);
. Replace the values in the bracket with the ID of the blogs you would like to feature—for example blogs owned by your fellow administrators. If you don't know the blog IDs, you can find them by looking at Site Admin | Blogs:Upload the plugin to your site's
/wp-content/plugins
directory.Go to Site Admin | Options in the admin panel, and enable plugins (they are turned off by default).
Now go to the Plugins section of the admin panel, look for the Featured Post plugin, and click Activate.
Open the
home.php
file for the theme you are using on the main site. Inside the main content div (in our case<div id="contentmiddle">
), add the following line:<h1>Featured Post:</h1>...