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Genesis Widget Featured Post

Question : Just wondering where you might use a featured post, where it would appear and why you would use one.

The Featured Post widget is a Navigation Tool. You display categories, and any number of posts you choose from that category, with this widget.

A Sidebar example with Featured Posts and Custom Menu

Remember when we used the widget ‘Categories’ to display our, you guessed it, categories? Now we use a Custom Menu instead.

You can pick and choose what goes into a Custom Menu but lets say that you have a menu with selected categories. Looks good, but there’s one category that you feel more important the others. So, we can use that category on a Featured Post widget.

Drag a Featured Post widget to your sidebar. Set it up the way you want. Choose the number of posts you want to display e.t.c (See How to Configure a Featured Post widget)

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You can use any number of Featured Post widgets, with any number of posts displayed , and you can drag them to any position that you want.

Have a look at the sidebar in this screenshot. There’s a Featured Post widget, in the ‘Recipe’ category, set to show 2 posts, in the sidebar. The widget is configured to show a thumbnail image.

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Have a play around with the Featured Post widget. Try different variations.

Here’s that sidebar again, this time with one Featured Post widget showing just 1 post in the “Gift Shop’ category (with thumbnail image). Another Featured Post widget shows the ‘Recipe’ category set to 3 posts (no images).

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Let’s have a look at the Featured Post widgets in that second example

First, there’s a Featured Post widget in the “Gift Shop’ category. It’s set to show one post and I’ve chosen to show the image.

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The next Featured Post widget is set to the ‘Recipe’ category and I want three posts, but no images.

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