I can’t find the plugin that lets me create featured posts in column format. Can you provide a different name for this plugin or recommend an alternative?
However, I’ve been using this lately – https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-featured-content-widget/ This one can be downloaded from WordPress. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but it still works pretty good. Some plugins don’t really need to be updated often if they are simple and created properly. It’s based on basic Genesis Features which haven’t changed much, so that’s probably why the plugin hasn’t been updated.
Give them both a try to see which one you like more.