GrandSlambert

<p>Allows you to feature pages on your sidebar using an excerpt of the page and a text or image link to the page.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Feature posts for a selected category, or by selecting individual pages.</li>
<li>Added support for custom templates – includes 4 different templates.</li>
<li>Added support for custom post types.</li>
<li>Added support for post thumbnails.</li>
<li>Added an option to set what tags are allowed in excerpts.</li>
<li>Supports loading pages with the WPML plugin (for multi-langauge sites).</li>
<li>Set up a random featured page by selecting multiple pages on the widget form.</li>
<li>Added option to hide the widget if only one page is selected and user is viewing that page.</li>
<li>Allows multiple widgets each featuring a different page.</li>
<li>Use the page title or enter your own title for each widget.</li>
<li>Option to link the widget title to the page.</li>
<li>Uses an excerpt of your page or predefined text stored in the “featured-text” custom field.</li>
<li>Set a default excerpt length which you can override for each widget.</li>
<li>Adds a text link under the content, or uses the image in the “featured-link” custom field to link to the page.</li>
<li>Choose alignment of link text or image in widget.</li>
<li>Add an image using the “featured-image” custom field and set the alignment in the widget.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>


Featured Page Widget

Allows you to feature pages on your sidebar using an excerpt of the page and a text or image link to the page.

Scott Reilly

<p>This plugin allows you to prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication. Beneficial in instances where you want to publish new content without any fanfare and just want the post added to archive and category pages and its own permalink page.</p>
<p>A “Stealth publish?” checkbox is added to the “Write Post” admin page. Posts which are saved with that checkbox checked will no longer be featured on the front page of the blog, nor will the post be included in any feeds.</p>
<p>A stealth published post will also not notify any external services about the publication. This includes not sending out pingbacks, trackbacks, and pings to update services such as pingomatic.com. This behavior can be overridden via the ‘c2c_stealth_publish_silent’ filter (see Filters section).</p>
<p>NOTES:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Use of other plugins making their own queries against the database to find posts will possibly allow a post to appear on the front page. But use of the standard WordPress functions for retrieving posts (as done for the main posts query and the recent posts widget) should not allow stealth published posts to appear on the home page.</p>
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<p>If you use this plugin, you do not need to use my <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/silent-publish/" rel="ugc">Silent Publish</a> plugin as that functionality is incorporated into this plugin. Alternatively, if you like the silent publishing feature but want your new posts to appear on your blog’s front page and in feeds, then just use the “Silent Publish” plugin.</p>
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<li>
<p>The plugin records when a post is stealth published, so subsequent edits of the post will have the “Stealth publish?” checkbox checked by default.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Links: <a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/stealth-publish/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/stealth-publish/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="http://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a></p>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<p>The plugin is further customizable via three filters. Typically, these customizations would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin.</p>
<h4>c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key (filter)</h4>
<p>The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key’ filter allows you to override the name of the custom field key used by the plugin to store a post’s stealth publish status. This isn’t a common need.</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>$custom_field_key (string): The custom field key to be used by the plugin. By default this is ‘_stealth-publish’.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>/**
 * Defines a custom meta key to be used by Stealth Publish.
 *
 * @param string $custom_field_key The default custom field key name.
 * @return string
 */
function override_stealth_publish_key( $custom_field_key ) {
    return '_my_custom_stealth-publish';
}
add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key', 'override_stealth_publish_key' );
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<h4>c2c_stealth_publish_silent (filter)</h4>
<p>The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_silent’ filter allows you to override whether the plugin also ensure the post gets published silently (i.e. without sending out pingbacks, tracbacks, and pings to update services).</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>$publish_silently (bool): Should stealth published posts also be published silently?  By default this is ‘true’.</li>
<li>$post_id (int): The ID of the post being published.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>/**
 * Disable silent publishing for stealth published posts.
 *
 * @param bool $publish_silently True if the post is to be published silently.
 * @param int  $post_id          The post ID.
 * @return Always false.
 */
function override_stealth_publish_silent( $publish_silently, $post_id ) {
    return false;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_silent', 'override_stealth_publish_silent' );
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<h4>c2c_stealth_publish_default (filter)</h4>
<p>The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_default’ filter allows you to override the default state of the ‘Stealth Publish?’ checkbox.</p>
<p>Arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li>$state (boolean): The default state of the checkbox. By default this is false.</li>
<li>$post (WP_Post): The post currently being created/edited.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>// Have the Stealth Publish? checkbox checked by default.
add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_default', '__return_true' );
</code></pre>


Stealth Publish

Prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication.

Featured Page Widget vs Stealth Publish