Description
This plugin creates a widget that features a specific page, showing its excerpt. You can also choose a post thumbnail among the registered ones in your theme.
Contributing
A Featured Page Widget is available on GitHub. If you want to contribute, please fork it and send a pull request!
Languages
- Portuguese (Brazil)
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload
a-featured-page-widget
directory to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to ‘Widgets’ menu and drag it to your sidebar
FAQ-e
- Can I use it outside my sidebar / widget area?
-
Sure you can! Just call
the_widget()
wherever you want to display your featured page. If you want to customize it, there’s four arguments:page
: The page ID. Required.title
: The widget title.image-size
: The post thumbnail size.link-text
: The text that will replace “Continue reading”. You may leave it empty too.
Example:
<?php the_widget( 'A_Featured_Page_Widget', array( 'page' => 734, 'link-text' => '', 'image-size' => 'large' ) ); ?>
If you don’t know the page ID, you can try
get_page_by_path()
function:<?php the_widget( 'A_Featured_Page_Widget', 'page=' . get_page_by_path( 'about' )->ID ); ?>
- Can I change the default text “Continue reading”?
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Yes. In your
functions.php
file, you cand use theafpw_link_text
filter:<?php function mytheme_change_afpw_link_text() { return 'Learn more'; } add_filter( 'afpw_link_text', 'mytheme_change_afpw_link_text' ); ?>
- Why am I unable to define a manual excerpt for my pages?
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First, check if the option for excerpts is not showing under “Screen Options”. If that’s the case, probably your theme doesn’t support excerpts in pages. You need to use
add_post_type_support()
inside yourfunctions.php
file:<?php function mytheme_add_page_excerpt() { add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' ); } add_action( 'init', 'mytheme_add_page_excerpt' ); ?>
- Who are these three little witches on the banner above?
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Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee and Sérgio Dias, also known as Os Mutantes, a Brazilian psychedelic rock band of the late ’60s. You should check them out!
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Contributors & Developers
“A Featured Page Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.3
- Introduce classes generally used for post thumbnails, such as
post-thumbnail
andentry-image
. - Update coding standards.
1.2
- Added widget defaults and removed cache functionality to work correctly with
the_widget()
. - Replaced
page-link
argument withlink-text
.
1.1
- Added a filter for the “Continue reading” text.
- Now we have a FAQ.
1.0
- First version.