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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

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<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>


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 …

YD Featured Box Widget vs Featured Posts Pro