4bzthemes

<p>A collection of shortcodes, widgets, a shortcode builder, multiple featured images, a related posts module, video and audio embed options, and extra fields for the user profile form. Includes Recent Posts, Featured Posts, Popular Posts, Related Posts, Image Text, Progressbars, Flexslider Slideshow, Contact Info, Contact Form, Flickr Photos, Facebook Comments, Author Bio, and Column shortcodes and widgets.<br />
This plugin provides filters for theme and plugin authors to override or augment the default shortcodes and widgets’ options, display, and description. 4bzthemes recommends the 4bzCore plugin for all of their themes.</p>
<p>You can find <a href="http://4bzthemes.com/knowledgebase/" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a>, and more detailed information on <a href="http://4bzthemes.com/plugin/4bzcore" rel="nofollow ugc">4bzthemes.com</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any questions about 4bzCore, consult the following in this order:</p>
<ol>
<li>[Docs](http://4bzthemes.com/knowledgebase/</li>
<li>[Support Forum] (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/4bzcore) on WordPress.org.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Translators</h3>
<p>4bzCore needs translations. If you have created or updated a language pack, you can send <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext PO and MO files</a> to <a href="http://4bzthemes.com/about/" rel="nofollow ugc">4bzthemes</a> so that it can be bundled into the plugin.</p>
<h3>Report a bug</h3>
<p>You can report any bugs through the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/4bzcore" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a> on WordPress.org.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>


4bzCore

A collection of shortcodes, widgets, a shortcode builder, multiple featured images, a related posts module, and much more.

thapa.laxman

<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
<p>allows administrator and editor an option to set posts, pages & custom posts as a featured posts very easily. Posts, pages & custom posts can be set as featured posts using a checkbox on the posts list page or on the edit page of the post. Please see screenshots to be more clear.</p>
<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
<p>also adds a widget that will list the recent featured posts. This is similar to the default recent posts widget except this widget displays recent featured posts instead. The template for the <strong>Featured Posts Pro Widget</strong> can be customized with your theme.</p>
<h3>How to use in the theme</h3>
<p>You can to get the featured posts, you need to make a custom query as follows</p>
<h3>sample code to get the featured posts with orders</h3>
<p>`$args = array(<br />
            ‘post_type’ => ‘any’,<br />
            ‘posts_per_page’      => 10,<br />
            ‘no_found_rows’       => true,<br />
            ‘post_status’         => ‘publish’,<br />
            ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true,<br />
            ‘meta_query’ => array(<br />
                array(<br />
                    ‘relation’ => ‘OR’,<br />
                    array(<br />
                        ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’,<br />
                        ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’<br />
                    ),<br />
                    array(<br />
                        ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’,<br />
                        ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’<br />
                    ),<br />
                ),<br />
                array(<br />
                    ‘relation’ => ‘AND’,<br />
                    ‘key’ => ‘is_post_featured’,<br />
                    ‘compare’ => ‘=’,<br />
                    ‘value’ => 1<br />
                )<br />
            ),<br />
            ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’,<br />
            ‘order’ => ‘ASC’,<br />
        ) ;</p>
<p>$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );<code><h3>sample code to get the featured posts without order</h3></code>$args = array(<br />
    ‘posts_per_page’      => 10,<br />
    ‘no_found_rows’       => true,<br />
    ‘post_status’         => ‘publish’,<br />
    ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true,<br />
    ‘meta_key’            => ‘is_post_featured’ //this is the meta key used for the featured posts<br />
) ;</p>
<p>$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`</p>
<p>or if you simple want tp</p>
<h3>How to customize the widget</h3>
<p>You can customize the widget template as follows:<br />
1. create a folder ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ inside your theme folder<br />
2. create two php files named as ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ & ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ in the ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ folder you just created<br />
3. template file ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_large.php’ will be used to render the widget when widget size is selected as large & similarly ‘tpl_featured_posts_pro_small.php’ is for small widget size<br />
3. copy and paste the content from plugin_fold er > featured-posts-pro > public > partials > featured_posts_pro-widget.php in the above two files<br />
4. make the layout changes as you wish.</p>


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