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GridNews Featured Grid Slider is a powerful WordPress plugin that creates beautiful, responsive featured post grids and sliders for any post type and taxonomy. Perfect for news sites, magazines, blogs, and portfolios.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Universal Compatibility – Works with any post type (posts, pages, custom post types)</li>
<li>Flexible Taxonomy Support – Use with categories, tags, or custom taxonomies</li>
<li>Responsive Design – Looks great on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices</li>
<li>Touch & Swipe Support – Native touch gestures for mobile users</li>
<li>Customizable Layout – 1 large post + 4 smaller posts per slide</li>
<li>Multiple Transition Modes – Choose between fade or slide transitions</li>
<li>Autoplay Control – Enable/disable autoplay with customizable speed</li>
<li>Category Colors – Display color-coded category badges</li>
<li>Excerpt Control – Show/hide excerpts with customizable length</li>
<li>Date Formatting – Multiple date format options</li>
<li>Easy Shortcode – Simple <code>[gridfegr_featured_grid]</code> shortcode</li>
<li>AJAX-Powered Admin – Dynamic taxonomy and term loading</li>
<li>Accessibility Ready – ARIA labels and keyboard navigation support</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
After activation, go to Settings > GridNews Featured Grid to configure your preferences.
Basic Usage: 
 [gridfegr_featured_grid]
Filter by Section: 
 [gridfegr_featured_grid section=”technology”]
Custom Post Type & Taxonomy: 
 [gridfegr_featured_grid post_type=”product” taxonomy=”product_category”]
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>News websites</li>
<li>Magazine sites</li>
<li>Blog homepages</li>
<li>Portfolio showcases</li>
<li>Product highlights</li>
<li>Event listings</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by O11Labs

GridNews Featured Grid Slider

Advanced Featured Grid & Slider for any Post Type & Taxonomy with responsive design and touch support.

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<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
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.
<h3>Featured Posts Pro</h3>
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 Featured Posts Pro Widget can be customized with your theme.
<h3>How to use in the theme</h3>
You can to get the featured posts, you need to make a custom query as follows
<h3>sample code to get the featured posts with orders</h3>
`$args = array( 
 ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, 
 ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, 
 ‘no_found_rows’ => true, 
 ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, 
 ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, 
 ‘meta_query’ => array( 
 array( 
 ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ 
 ), 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘post_featured_position’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’ 
 ), 
 ), 
 array( 
 ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, 
 ‘key’ => ‘is_post_featured’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘=’, 
 ‘value’ => 1 
 ) 
 ), 
 ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, 
 ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, 
 ) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );<code><h3>sample code to get the featured posts without order</h3></code>$args = array( 
 ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, 
 ‘no_found_rows’ => true, 
 ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, 
 ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true, 
 ‘meta_key’ => ‘is_post_featured’ //this is the meta key used for the featured posts 
) ;
$featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`
or if you simple want tp
<h3>How to customize the widget</h3>
You can customize the widget template as follows: 
1. create a folder ‘featured_posts_pro_tpls’ inside your theme folder 
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 
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 
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 
4. make the layout changes as you wish.

Featured Posts Pro

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This plugin gives Administrator/Editor an easy option to mark posts, pages & custom posts as featured posts and provides a widget to list the rece …

GridNews Featured Grid Slider vs Featured Posts Pro