diff --git a/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php b/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php
index 49fc019fc21d7..7206922c5fad2 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php
@@ -18,11 +18,22 @@
  * Featured content controller class.
  *
  * @since  1.6
- *
- * @deprecated  6.0 will be removed in 8.0
- *              Use \Joomla\Component\Content\Administrator\Controller\ArticlesController instead
- *              For Quickicons use articles.getQuickiconFeatured()
  */
 class FeaturedController extends ArticlesController
 {
+    /**
+     * Method to get a model object, loading it if required.
+     *
+     * @param   string  $name    The model name. Optional.
+     * @param   string  $prefix  The class prefix. Optional.
+     * @param   array   $config  Configuration array for model. Optional.
+     *
+     * @return  \Joomla\CMS\MVC\Model\BaseDatabaseModel  The model.
+     *
+     * @since   1.6
+     */
+    public function getModel($name = 'Feature', $prefix = 'Administrator', $config = ['ignore_request' => true])
+    {
+        return parent::getModel($name, $prefix, $config);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_content/tmpl/articles/default.php b/administrator/components/com_content/tmpl/articles/default.php
index 78dc4bceadf74..c9530a3400ebc 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_content/tmpl/articles/default.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_content/tmpl/articles/default.php
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
 }
 
 if ($saveOrder && !empty($this->items)) {
-    $saveOrderingUrl = 'index.php?option=com_content&task=articles.saveOrderAjax&tmpl=component&' . Session::getFormToken() . '=1';
+    $controller = $featured === '1' ? 'featured' : 'articles';
+    $saveOrderingUrl = 'index.php?option=com_content&task=' . $controller . '.saveOrderAjax&tmpl=component&' . Session::getFormToken() . '=1';
     HTMLHelper::_('draggablelist.draggable');
 }
 
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@
                             </tr>
                         </thead>
                         <tbody<?php if ($saveOrder) :
-                            ?> class="js-draggable" data-url="<?php echo $saveOrderingUrl; ?>" data-direction="<?php echo strtolower($listDirn); ?>" data-nested="true"<?php
+                            ?> class="js-draggable" data-url="<?php echo $saveOrderingUrl; ?>" data-direction="<?php echo strtolower($listDirn); ?>"<?php echo $featured === '1' ? '' : ' data-nested="true"'; ?><?php
                               endif; ?>>
                         <?php foreach ($this->items as $i => $item) :
                             $item->max_ordering = 0;
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@
                             }
 
                             ?>
-                            <tr class="row<?php echo $i % 2; ?>" data-draggable-group="<?php echo $item->catid; ?>"
+                            <tr class="row<?php echo $i % 2; ?>"<?php echo $featured === '1' ? '' : ' data-draggable-group="' . $item->catid; ?>
                                 <?php echo $dataTransitionsAttribute ?? '' ?>
                             >
                                 <td class="text-center">