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>\n\n
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 Featured Posts Pro Widget<\/strong> can be customized with your theme.<\/p>\n\n You can to get the featured posts, you need to make a custom query as follows<\/p>\n\n `$args = array(\n 'post_type' => 'any',\n 'posts_per_page' => 10,\n 'no_found_rows' => true,\n 'post_status' => 'publish',\n 'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,\n 'meta_query' => array(\n array(\n 'relation' => 'OR',\n array(\n 'key' => 'post_featured_position',\n 'compare' => 'EXISTS'\n ),\n array(\n 'key' => 'post_featured_position',\n 'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'\n ),\n ),\n array(\n 'relation' => 'AND',\n 'key' => 'is_post_featured',\n 'compare' => '=',\n 'value' => 1\n )\n ),\n 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',\n 'order' => 'ASC',\n ) ;<\/p>\n\n $featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args ); $featuredPosts = new WP_Query( $args );`<\/p>\n\n or if you simple want tp<\/p>\n\n You can customize the widget template as follows:\n1. create a folder 'featured_posts_pro_tpls' inside your theme folder\n2. 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\n3. 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 \n3. copy and paste the content from plugin_fold er > featured-posts-pro > public > partials > featured_posts_pro-widget.php in the above two files\n4. make the layout changes as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n You can contact me from http:\/\/www.lakshman.com.np\/featured-posts-pro\/<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n The ability to include custom post types for the featured posts. The featured post can now be ordered.<\/p>\n\n 'Posts' post type is selected by default<\/p>\n\n bug on 'quick edit' on posts page fixed<\/p>\n\n bug fixes<\/p>\n\n fixed bug that prevented the plugin to be used on child theme. Thx to Shane Bill on identifying this issue.<\/p>","raw_excerpt":"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 …","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/51254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51254"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/thapalaxman"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=51254"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=51254"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=51254"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=51254"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=51254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to use in the theme<\/h3>\n\n
sample code to get the featured posts with orders<\/h3>\n\n
<h3>sample code to get the featured posts without order<\/h3><\/code>$args = array(\n 'posts_per_page' => 10,\n 'no_found_rows' => true,\n 'post_status' => 'publish',\n 'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,\n 'meta_key' => 'is_post_featured' \/\/this is the meta key used for the featured posts\n) ;<\/p>\n\nHow to customize the widget<\/h3>\n\n
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