<p>The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category. Ideally this should<br />
draw readers landing on your homepage to some of your best posts. The featured post will display the title<br />
“Featured Post” (customizable) along with the post’s title, an excerpt and a link to continue to the full post.</p>
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>The show_featured_post($PreFeature = ”, $PostFeature = ”, $AlwaysShow = false, $categoryID = 0, $NumberOfPosts = 0) function has five optional arguments.<br />
The first two are for any HTML you would like to display before and after the featured post. The third argument is a<br />
boolean (true/false) argument which will override the \’Show Featured Post\’ option and always display the featured post when true. The fourth option allows you to<br />
specify a single category to display from, overriding the selections in settings page. The fifth option allows you to show more than one post at a time, overriding<br />
the settings page option.</li>
<li>All output is contained in a DIV class named “featuredpost” and can be adjusted via your stylesheet.</li>
</ul>


Random Featured Post

The Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category as a "featured" post.

Francesco Canovi

Black Studio

Marco Chiesi

<p>The Genesis framework by StudioPress is the leading WordPress theme framework on the market. Unfortunately most of the available child themes have a prebuilt layout for the home page, that can’t be easily customized, unless you are a developer, as it requires dealing with templates, hooks, etc.<br />
On the other side Page Builder by SiteOrigin is a plugin that allows you to create responsive page layouts using widgets with simple drag and drop operations.<br />
You may combine Genesis and Page Builder to build a flexible layout for your home page. To do so you have to configure a static page in your WordPress <code>Reading</code> Settings and build that page using Page Builder, but there are still some caveats when doing this, related to how Genesis handles static pages (page title, layout, styles, etc).<br />
This plugin fills the gap between Genesis themes and Page Builder, providing a quick and ready-made solution to let the two play nicely together.</p>
<p>In particular this plugin does the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Adds the Page Builder support to the current theme</li>
<li>Adds the <code>Home Page</code> menu under <code>Appearance</code> in WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Forces the Genesis full width layout for the front page</li>
<li>Replaces Genesis child theme loop with the page content generated with Page Builder</li>
<li>Allows you to control some CSS variations to adjust layout in specific use cases</li>
<li>Supports both Genesis XHTML and HTML5 child themes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>A child theme based on the <a href="https://www.studiopress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis framework by StudioPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/" rel="ugc">Page Builder by SiteOrigin</a> plugin</li>
</ul>
<h4>Recommended additional plugins to use</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/" rel="ugc">Black Studio TinyMCE Widget</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/" rel="ugc">SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-featured-content-widget/" rel="ugc">Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">Black Studio web site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-homepage-builder/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/black-studio-homepage-builder" rel="ugc">Support forum</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/blackstudioita" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blackstudiocomunicazione" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-studio" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://github.com/black-studio" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Get involved</h4>
<ul>
<li>Developers can contribute to the source code on our <a href="https://github.com/black-studio/black-studio-homepage-builder" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</li>
<li>Users can contribute by leaving a 5 stars <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/black-studio-homepage-builder#postform" rel="ugc">review</a> or making a <a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/wordpress-plugins/black-studio-homepage-builder/" rel="nofollow ugc">donation</a>.</li>
</ul>


Black Studio Homepage Builder for Genesis

Customize the home page of Genesis framework child themes using Page Builder by SiteOrigin.

Random Featured Post vs Black Studio Homepage Builder for Genesis