As you pour hours of energy into writing content for your site, there will be those posts which you would to receive a little more attention than others. With OnePress, you can easily feature posts by using the Featured Posts Carousel. After placing this widget on your main column (we recommend at the top) you can feed your posts into this widget using the tag “feature.”
Concerning the topic of, how it is determined which posts show in the widget, there are a number of factors that come into play, but we have made it fairly automagical. The widget takes into consideration all of the posts that have been tagged “feature.” From all of the posts tagged “feature,” the most recent posts will be displayed. If there are multiple featured posts carousels on a page, it will only display the same post once.
One way you can refine the posts that show up in a featured posts carousel is by selecting an extra tag in the widget’s options. When you edit the widget, you will see a drop down selector displaying the tags available to choose from. Once selected and saved, only posts with “feature” and the extra tag will show up in that carousel. This is incredibly helpful if you have a featured posts carousel widget on your “fall” tag page that you only want to show posts tagged “fall”. For this example, we are going to edit the widget extra class to be “photo,” which will display the features in a gallery style.
Featured Posts Carousel Options
Posts to be used as features in the carousel desire an extra step when being created. This is due to the fact that the featured posts carousel uses an image to represent the post’s content. Assigning the image is easy since OnePress leverages the WordPress media uploader. Just attach the image to the post as you normally would and upon closing the uploader window, you will see the “Image Selection” post meta box populate with the picture you just uploaded. Now just select “Feature” as the type you are going to assign the image for and click the image you just uploaded. Now this will be the image that appears in the feature carousel for this post! We recommend images that are at least 800 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall for use in the featured posts carousel. If it’s a little too big, don’t worry, the widget will only show what it needs.
Choosing the Feature Image
Next, make sure you have the appropriate text as the post’s excerpt, because that is what will be used to give the user a preview for your post.
Edit your post's excerpt to be suitable for the widget
Here is what the post will look like in the feature carousel:
What your feature will look like rendered in the widget
The widget will support up to four posts, rotating through them at a pace perfect to give your readers a chance to comfortably take in all of your features. Controls are also available for jumping between the features quickly.
