"Promote to front page" to other than front page
"Promoted to front page" can be used as a views filter. So you could create views based on that (so it displays node teasers that have a certain taxonomy and are "Promoted to front page").

Another simple way to mimic "Promoted to front page" is to add a taxonomy select field to your content types, and then the taxonomy pages would display the specified content.

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