The Featured Category Widget is basically a Featured Post Widget for a category.
Screenshots
The plugin's work on our testing page
The widget's settings section
FAQ
I styled the widget container myself and it looks bad. What do I do?
The styling of the widget requires some knowledge of css. If you are not familiar with that, try adding
padding: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
to the style section.
My widget should have rounded corners, how do I do that?
Add something like
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
border-top-left-radius: 5px;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;
to the widget style. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.
My widget should have a shadow, how do I do that?
Add something like
-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
-webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
to the widget style to get a nice shadow down right of the container. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.
ChangeLog
2.5
- WP 4.5 ready
- New framework
2.4.1
- forgotten var_dump() taken out
2.4
- WP 4.3 ready
- New framework
2.3.1
2.3
- WP 4.1 ready
- New framework
2.2.2
- Mistake in image class fixed
2.2.1
- Interference with WordPress Page Widgets eliminated
2.2
- Bug fixed with featured images
2.1
- Posts now sortable in alphabetical order
- DSS compressable
2.0.1
- Made compliant with WP 3.9.1 and small bugfix
2.0
- New feature to have post of the main loop in the widget on single pages
1.9
- All ‘Devided by Zero’ errors should be eliminated
1.8
- Improvement in image recognition, more flexible
1.7.1
- image border added and some streamlining done
1.7
- streamlined code
- alignment of the thumbnail now possible
- you can show the post date
- more responsive
1.6
- adjustments in the framework
- some more customizing was asked
1.5
- you can now link the widget title to the displayed category
1.4
- possibility to change size of thumbnail added; small bug fixed
1.3
- small bugfix in auto excerpt
1.2
- code overhaul
- hooks into the Ads Easy Plugin if Google AdSense Tags are in use
1.1
- possibility to choose random posts
1.0