Featured articles gives the wordpress blog admin the possibility to display posts in a slick n cool way on the home page, just above the first post from the loop.

Here’s the complete list of those options:

• Set title for the section. The title will appear above the slides
• Display title ( maybe you change you mind, who knows )
• Truncate descriptions with thumbnail to a number of characters
• Truncate descriptions without thumbnail to a different number of characters; this setting will apply if you choose not to display thumbnails at all
• Number of articles to be displayed
• Display order ( newest, oldest or random )
• And finally, thumbnail display