Mohit Chawla

<p>This plugin adds the ability for the user to mark a post to be a featured post with just one click without the need of editing an individual post. The plugin also includes a widget which can display all the posts which have been marked featured.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ul>
<li>Go to your admin dashboard page.</li>
<li>Open all posts page which displays the list of posts in table.</li>
<li>A column name ‘Featured posts’ will be there with a star icon in each row.</li>
<li>Click the star to make that post as featured.</li>
</ul>
<p>Dashboard->Posts>All Posts</p>
<h4>Instructions</h4>
<p>Q1. How to display feature posts?</p>
<p>Plugin comes with a widget, which can be added to sidebar</p>
<p>Q2. How to display featured posts in any desired section of theme(Developers)?</p>
<p>In order to display featured posts in your theme, use the following code to fetch the posts.</p>
<pre><code>$featured_posts = Thfp_public::thfp_get_featured_posts();
</code></pre>
<p>The above code return WP_Query object which you can use in a loop. Above static function accepts a parameter(int) which limits the number of posts which it can return.</p>
<p>Show the posts with the help of custom loop:-</p>
<pre><code>if($featured_posts->have_posts()):
    while($featured_posts->have_posts()): $featured_posts->the_post();
        //Your code here
    endwhile;
endif;
</code></pre>
<p>You can also use your own wp_query. Make sure you use ‘tag’ key to be ‘featured’.</p>
<pre><code>$args = array(
    'post_status'   =>  'publish',
    'tag'           =>  'featured',
    //Use any other needed args
);
$featured_posts = new WP_Query($args);
</code></pre>
<p>and then use the loop to display posts.</p>


Tidyhive Featured Posts

Set featured posts with single click, no page refresh from admin panel.

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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