Featured Post

[lydp101]

Hello All,

I have a widget titled featured post on a sidebar menu. Does anyone know how to change that featured post? I looked at the home.php and I believe this to be the code that handles that portion (understand this was a theme modified by someone else and I've been tasked to fix it). I would like to be able to choose what featured post I want to show.

<div class="hpfeatured">
<h3><?php echo cat_id_to_name(get_theme_mod('featured_top_right') ); ?></h3>

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".get_theme_mod('featured_top_right' )."&showposts=".get_theme_mod('featured_top_right_ num')); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumb", true) ): ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img class="thumb" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/tools/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumb", $single = true); ?>&amp;h=<?php echo get_theme_mod('featured_top_right_thumb_height'); ?>&amp;w=<?php echo get_theme_mod('featured_top_right_thumb_width'); ?>&amp;zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
<?php else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<strong><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></strong>
<?php the_content_limit(80, ""); ?>

<hr/>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php $cat = get_category(get_theme_mod('featured_top_right')); ?>
<strong><a href="<?php echo get_category_link(get_theme_mod('featured_top_righ t')); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo __("Read More Posts From ", 'studiopress')." ".$cat->name; ?></a></strong>

</div>

If anyone can offer any help that would be great thanks!