5.0 Joomla Featured Article
5.1 Mark Joomla 3 articles Featured
a) First, you need to mark some articles in your site as Featured
b) To do this, go to Content -> Articles Manager.
c) You will see a list of your articles. Note that there is a star next to each article. To
mark an article as Featured, simply press the star next to it. It will turn yellow,
indicating that you've marked this article as featured.
5.2 Show Featured articles on a page linked in the Joomla menu
a) If you want to manually choose the articles displayed on a page, the Featured
Articles menu type in Joomla 3 is exactly what you need.
b) To do this go to Menus -> Main Menu(default main menu) -> Add New Menu Item
(you can do the same with existing menu items, for example the Home menu).