LAPDI Featured Posts

Let A Pro Do IT!’s (LAPDI) Featured Posts plugin allows you to add featured posts to your blog’s website via widget or on pages and posts using shortcodes. Featured Posts has five (5) layouts and can include thumbnails, post gallery and quotes.

Shortcodes

Add a Featured Posts to posts and pages by using a shortcode inside your text or evaluated from within your theme. You may override page/post Featured Posts options with shortcode attributes defined on the plugin’s settings page.

• [tsp-featured-posts] – Will display posts with the default options defined in the plugin’s settings page.
• [tsp-featured-posts title="Title of Posts" keep_formatting="N" style="color: red;" max_words=10 show_quotes="N" show_thumb="Y" show_event_data="N" show_author="Y" show_date"N" show_private="N" show_text_posts="N" number_posts="5" excerpt_max=100 excerpt_min=60 post_class="" fpost_type="post" post_ids="5,3,4" category="0" slider_width="865" slider_height="365 layout="0" order_by="DESC" thumb_width="80" thumb_height="80" read_more_text="more..." before_title="" after_title=""] – Will override all attributes defined on the plugin’s settings page.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN: Requires the installation and activation of LAPDI Easy Dev Latest Version

1. Upload tsp-featured-posts to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
3. After installation, refer to the LAPDI Featured Posts settings page for more detailed instructions on setting up your shortcodes.
4. Featured Posts widgets can be added to the sidemenu bar by visiting Appearance > Widgets and dragging the LAPDI Featured Posts widget to your sidebar menu.
5. Add some widgets to the sidemenu bar, Add shortcodes to pages and posts (see Instructions)
6. View your site
7. Adjust your CSS for your theme by visiting Appearance > Edit CSS
8. Adjust the Sliding Gallery settings, if necessary, by visiting Plugins > Editor, Select LAPDI Featured Posts and edit the tsp-featured-posts.css and js/slider-scripts.js files
9. Manipulating the CSS for #postSlider and #tspfp_article entries changes the gallery and article styles respectfully

1. 

   Admin area widget settings.

2. 

   Featured Posts displayed on the front-end.

3. 

   Featured Posts gallery.

4. 

   Admin area shortcode settings area.

1.3.3

Bug fix. Fixed bug with posts not showing

1.3.2

• Maintenance
• Bug fix – Null exception fix

1.3.1

• Enhancement: Requires v2.0.0 of LAPDI Easy Dev
• Fixed Bug: Adding plugin to page changes page format
• Fixed Bug: Adding plugin to overrides current post title

1.3.0

• Enhancement: Improved settings UI

1.2.9

• Enhancement: Using only TSP Easy Dev (Pro version no longer available.)

1.2.8

• Fixed bug: Fixed bug to handle null options

1.2.7

• Fixed bug: Fixed issue FP-22 Unable to save settings in admin area (See: FIX INSTRUCTIONS)

1.2.6

• Enhancement: Allow user to add additional post classes

1.2.5

• Enhancement: Added support for viewing tribe event data (see The Events Calendar plugin)

1.2.4

• Enhancement: Added the option to display post types, to display events, appointments, etc. Anything with a post type you can now display
• Enhancement: Added new layout option, Top: Image, Title: Bottom, Excerpt: Last

1.2.3

• Enhancement: Added option to show private posts

1.2.2

• Enhancement: Added option to keep HTML formatting
• Enhancement: Added option to add style formatting to individual posts

1.2.1

• Enhancement (Blackley): Link thumbnails to articles
• Enhancement (Blackley): Link readmore text to article
• Enhancement (Blackley): Allow readmore text to be customized
• Enhancement (Blackley): Allow show/hide of post thumbnails
• Enhancement (Blackley): Allow user to control post info using CSS (author/date – #tspfp_article #article_about{})

1.2.0

• Enhancement: Allow spaces between commas when listing post IDs

1.1.9

• Fixed bug. Correctly locates TSP Easy Dev.

1.1.8

• Fixed bug. Prevent excerpts of protected posts from being displayed.

1.1.7

• Enhancement. Removed font size from moving boxes stylesheet

1.1.6

• Enhancement. Post images are now be pulled from featured thumbnail as well as content.

1.1.5

• Enhancement. Updated support link

1.1.4

• Removed inline function from widget_init hook to support older versions of PHP.

1.1.3

• Required fix to properly store new widget/shortcode attributes into database. (Update to Easy Dev 1.2.2).
• Added a show_date attribute to widget and shortcodes.
• Make show_author No by default

1.1.2

• Added back in assets folder

1.1.1

• Fixed issues with encrypted libraries.

1.1.0

• Now uses Easy Dev Pro for easy plugin development, #bringbackOOD
• Handled all PHP notices
• Added new attributes max_words (control post title lengths)
• Added new attributes excerpt_min, excerpt_max (control post content lengths)
• Added new attributes show_author (choose to show/hide the author of a post)
• Renamed attributes to prevent red spell checks when editing (old attributes still supported)
• Decreased plugin size by using Easy Dev

1.0.1

• Checks for existence of parent settings menu before overwriting it

1.0.0

• Launch