How to automate featured posts number? [duplicate]

The problem is that you misuse the category field.

Use a site meta field (array) and a simple checkbox on each post. When a post is saved add its ID to the site meta array, and if the array is longer than 5 drop the last ID from it. The query for featured post will then just take the post IDs from the meta field and you will never have to uncheck something manually.

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