Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget adds additional functionality to the Genesis Featured Posts Widget. Specifically it:
- Supports Custom Post Types
- Supports Custom Taxonomies
- Exclude Term by ID field
- Supports Pagination
- Supports Meta Key Values
- Supports Sorting by Meta Key
- Multiple Hooks and Filters for adding additional content
New features include:
- More filters/actions
- Everything in a single class
- Addition of column classes (including option for fifths class) & custom classes
- WP_Query optimization for speed including site transients and term cache updating
- Pushed everything to a framework approach so it can all be removed easily
- HTML5 & Genesis 2.0 updated
- Excerpt length & cutoffs options added
- White labeled naming option
- Added remove displayed posts option (won't display a post that already exists on the page)
Issues/Problems
Issues and development will be maintained in the Github repo:
https://github.com/wpsmith/genesis-sandbox-featured-content-widget
Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.
- Upload the entire `genesis-sandbox-featured-content-widget` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
- Activate the plugin through the \'Plugins\' menu in WordPress
- Go Widget Screen
- Drag Widget to desired sidebar
- Fill in widget settings