Epitome Featured Category

The featured category is meant to set an introduction category that helps to identify the topic of a post. The plugin adds a metabox in the edit page of a regular post for selecting the featured category. Note that a small coding is required to display the featured category in the right location of your template. You can display the featured category in the desired location of the page with a set of functions that you call from your template. The plugin CMB2 is required for creating metaboxes.

Functions

• the_featured_category() takes the current post or page ID and outputs the featured category.
• get_the_featured_category($post_id) has one optional parameter (post or page ID) and returns the featured category as a string.
• has_featured_category($post_id) has one optional parameter (post or page ID) and checks whether a featured category exists.

1. Upload the epitome-featured-category folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

1.0

• Initial release.