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<h4>Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets</h4>
<p>Adds a widget to display a square or rectangular block in the form of an image, title, and subtitle<br />
pointing to a specific post, page, category or theme.</p>
<p>Nice CSS styling. Recommended for inclusion in “magazine styled” home pages.</p>
<p>Multi-widget is supported, so that numerous articles or categories can be featured in a sidebar or home page template.</p>
<p>You can use the provided additional stylesheet, or customize your own.</p>
<p>Base package includes .pot file for translation of the interface, and <strong>English</strong> and <strong>French</strong> versions.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>If you want to contribute to a translation of this plugin, please drop me a line by e-mail or leave a comment<br />
on the <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget" title="Yann Dubois' Featured Box Widget for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s page</a>.<br />
You will get credit for your translation in the plugin file and this documentation, as well as a link on this page and on my developers’ blog.</p>
<h4>Active support</h4>
<p>Drop me a line on my <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget" title="Yann Dubois' Featured Block Widget for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">YD Recent Posts Widget plugin support site</a> to report bugs, ask for specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.<br />
It’s still in an active development stage, with new features coming out on a regular basis.</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>0.1.0. Initial beta release of 2010/10/14</li>
<li>0.1.1. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/25</li>
<li>0.1.2. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/25</li>
<li>0.1.3. Minor bug fixes, framework update 2010/10/26</li>
</ul>
<h3>Did you like it?</h3>
<p>Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-featured-block-widget</p>
<p>And… <em>please</em> rate this plugin –></p>


YD Featured Box Widget

Quick and simple featured boxes as widgets

AMP-MODE

Scott DeLuzio

<p>The default Genesis Featured Post widget is great, except you only have the option to include all categories or a specific category. You can exclude previously displayed posts or “sticky” posts, but you can’t exclude all posts in a specific category.</p>
<p>This plugin was created out of a need to show all but one category in the featured post widget.</p>
<h3>Why Exclude a Category?</h3>
<p>Most blogs focus on a certain topic – technology, food, entertainment, sports, or whatever.</p>
<p>Your featured post widgets should show off the posts that are geared towards the audience you are attracting to your site.</p>
<p>Every once in a while you may have a category that doesn’t quite fit the norm. You might have your own personal thoughts, and while they are important to you, they may not fit on the homepage of your site.</p>
<p>You may also have a tutorial series with a dozen posts that would end up filling up your featured post widgets. You can feature the main introductory post, and hide the rest.</p>


Featured Post Exclude Category for Genesis

Really easy way to exclude a category from the Featured Post widget.

Easy to remove a category

A new featured posts widget for Genesis themes that allows you to exclude a category when selecting All Categories in the featured post widget.

YD Featured Box Widget vs Featured Post Exclude Category for Genesis