Nodequeue

The Node Queue module allows an administrator to arbitrarily put nodes in a group for some purpose; examples of this might be to highlight one particular node, as in a typical news site's Lead Article. Another use might be to create a block listing teasers for 5 forum posts that the admin thinks are important. Another use might be to create a group of nodes, and then have a block or the front page offer one of these randomly.

Node queue provides a simple UI to manually order any queue. Additionally, it allows nodes to be added and removed from queues without needing edit permissions to the node. Nodes can be added to queues either from a queue management tab or by links on the node teaser.

Node queue provides smartqueues, which are associated with external data. For example, the taxonomy smartqueue creates subqueues for a given queue for every term in the chosen vocabulary. Nodes are then only eligible for subqueues whose term matches the nodes terms. This makes it very easy to have queues for each category without cluttering the management page.

Node queue contains an extensive API. It integrates well with Views and Actions, as well as providing a host of functions to interface with it directly, making it possible to manipulate queues programmatically for whatever purposes that are customized to your website.
Releases for 4.7.x and prior are unsupported at this time.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-2.0-rc1	2008-Jun-26	377.91 KB	Download · Release notes	Supported for 6.x
5.x-2.2	2008-Jul-06	45.07 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Development snapshots	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-2.x-dev	2008-Jun-10	377.91 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot
5.x-2.x-dev	2008-Jul-07	45.08 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot