Featured Post Widget
by tepelstreel 4 (5 reviews)

Featured Post Widget

With the Featured Post Widget you can put a certain post in the focus and style it differently.

Featured Post Widget ranks #10,712 among WordPress.org plugins with 300+ active installations, is #1,382 of 8,848 in the Customization category, a 4/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Feb 28, 2016. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.5 (Current: 7.1.4)
v4.2.1 Current Version v4.2.1
Updated 10 years ago Last Update on 28 Feb, 2016
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#1,382 of 8,848 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Active Installs
300+
-13.5%
KW Avg Position
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Downloads
66.3K
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Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
80%
Review 4 out of 5
4 (5 reviews)

Next Milestone 400

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Reviews & Ratings

4.0
5 reviews
Overall 80%
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4
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Featured Post Widget. Checked 3 months ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to highlight a specific post separately from the rest of their content. It solves the problem of making a chosen post visually stand out through a customizable widget instead of blending in with regular post listings.

  • Displays a single post
  • Toggle post thumbnail display
  • Title above or beneath thumbnail
  • Individually stylable widget
  • Fully customizable widget

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Featured Post Widget

If the widget container is smaller than the image size, the image will automatically be adjusted to the widget size. In other words, just choose some width for the image that is larger than your widget area and it will always have the right size.
The styling of the widget requires some knowledge of css. If you are not familiar with that, try adding padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; to the style section.
Add something like -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; to the widget style. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.
Add something like -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; to the widget style to get a nice shadow down right of the container. This is not supported by all browsers yet, but should work in almost all of them.

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