This plugin allows you to mark content as featured and provides supporting functionality.
Author: | Nick Ohrn of Plugin-Developer.com (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | 3.5.1 |
WordPress version tested: | 3.9.1 |
Plugin version: | 1.1.0 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 11-02-2013 |
Last updated: | 23-05-2014
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Rating, %: | 100 |
Rated by: | 2 |
Plugin URI: | |
Total downloads: | 4 550 |
Active installs: | 50+ |
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Quickly and easily mark any content that has an editing UI in the WordPress administrative section as featured. This plugin
also provides a template tag that you can use to display certain markup or styles for featured content and a query
variable that allows you to query for featured (or non-featured) content.
Screenshots
This is the metabox that will appear on all editing screens after plugin activation
This screenshot shows the links you can click to feature or unfeature any content on your site
FAQ
How do I make a post type featurable?
By default, the plugin only allows posts and pages to be featured. However, if you have a custom post type, you can easily add featured content support by modifying the following snippet:
function register_featured_content_support() {
// Adds featured content support to the custom post type 'my-post-type-slug'
add_post_type_support('my-post-type-slug', 'featured-content');
// Removes featured content support from pages
remove_post_type_support('page', 'featured-content');
}
add_filter('after_setup_theme', 'register_featured_content_support');
Why would I want to use this plugin?
If you have content on your site that you want to feature (maybe on the home page or in a sidebar) then you can use this plugin
to enable marking that content as featured. It works for any post type that provides an editing UI.
How do I use the query variable?
In your custom queries (new WP_Query
, get_posts
or query_posts
) simply pass in the query variable is_featured
as follows:
$featured_posts = new WP_Query(array('is_featured' => 'yes', 'post_type' => 'post'));
If you need to get only non featured content, you would do something like the following:
$non_featured_posts = new WP_Query(array('is_featured' => 'no', 'post_type' => 'post'));
ChangeLog
1.1.0
- Better security
- Code cleanup
- Use
has_post_type_support
and add_post_type_support
- Only posts and pages support featured content by default now
1.0.0
- Initial release of plugin