Thread:Gusey1397/@comment-294719-20120522185733/@comment-171752-20120522202103

To reiterate what Gp75 said, it's really just choosing an article to feature, then displaying a paragraph or two (and an image if you want) on the main page, with a link to the article of course. As far as how to display the featured article section, you can either make a custom heading or simply use ==Featured Article== as your heading.

Having the featured article exist an a template isn't necessary, but doing so does make the main page less cluttered when in edit mode.

If you have multiple articles that you want to feature and don't want to manually edit your featured article template every week/month/whatever, you can setup your template to randomly display content (the paragraph(s) from the article) from a list of options. See this page for the simple instructions to use it. Basically, the content for each tag would be the paragraph(s) from an article being featured.