FEATURED POST
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Since late version 1.x we have had a "featured post" capability with the
News Print theme. This allows you, the author, to specify that one 
particular category's posts go right at the top, spanning the three (or
two, should you choose it that way) columns.

Here's how you set it up, step by step:

1) index.php, line 34; 

   $featured_post_cat = '3';
   
   change this to whatever category number you want as the "featured"
   category

2) index.php, line 50;

   <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=work&showposts=1'); ?>
   
   again, you should know the name of your "featured" category - in this
   example above, it is 'work', change this to the name of your "featured"
   category
   
3) post.php, line 24; post-single.php, line 21;

   <?php if (in_category(3) && $featured_post_icon) { ?>
   
   change the number 3 to whatever category number you want as the
   "featured" category - this is to make sure that a special icon gets 
   displayed for those posts that are "featured"

4) sidebar.php, lines 140-143;

   <?php
     $posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=0&category=3');
     foreach($posts as $post) :
   ?>
   
   change the number 3 to whatever category number you want as the
   "featured" category - this is for the sidebar, so it shows the
   last 5 "featured" posts