Featured articles, order and similar

Hi!

We are considering the next idea:

On the home, we are going to show the news, like a blog, but we are interested on keeping some of them more time. We have thinked several ways:
- Change order to custom field/order (this way we would lose the automatic date order of the non-featured articles)
- Featured articles (this way allow us to change the css, but depending on the order method the article could go to another different page.)

What do you think? There is a simple way to achive this?

an idea
an universal module on top with your feature article and ordering
after your blog category
?

That was another option, the more probably. It only has two minimal problems, one, change the module template to match the type template and that the items there only could have the "featured" category or they´ll appear again below on the category view, but it´s achievable

Hello

what about using ordering attribute and setting a negative value (=sticky)

This could work, but the items are inserted with bigger numbers each time so it won´t work in my case because the newest item will appear on last place.

Maybe if I have a Content Ordering attribute - Inverse and I use really big numbers for the ones I want to feature, that could work for a while