How to make featured members

How do I go about making certain members "featured" within D7?

I don't know if there is a better way but I go to Admin, Members, and select the member, on their profile fields select featured. If the member has some missing info for required fields you can't save it. In that case I got to the database and profile and change 0 to 1 for the Featured. Hope it helps.

I tried to give the Featured option when someone is editing their profile, but the Profile Field won't let me create a new block using the Featured variable (I hope I said that right).  Anyway, is there a way to give the member and option to check the Featured box if they want to be Featured?

Thanks in advance,

Glen

Featuring a member is an admin control variable.  In theory, you could find where admin controls are displayed and copy the featured member portion out of it and place it in a php block that a regular user can use.  However the purpose for featured is to let the admin decide, not the member themselves but this is only my 2 cents.

mauricecano, can you explain in details how to copy the block that you describe.

Actually though, the perfect mod would you give them the member the option to say that they would like to be Featured, but then the Admin would have to approve it.  Anyone out there want to do a module for this?

Thanks,

Glen