WordPress Plugin Featured Posts with thumbnails: highlighting your best articles
Have you ever written a really great article – in which you invested a lot of time and personal knowledge – and as time goes by you see it get forgotten in your blog archive? After managing a blog for a while, you may have the desire to dedicate a section to your most noteworthy articles, so they don’t get lost and forgotten amongst the pages of your blog.
There are already lots of plugins that let you showcase articles, but after having tried some I realized they’re not very flexible: they typically let you show the most read or most commented articles without giving you the possibility to directly choose which articles to display.
If you wanted to showcase an article even though it’s not one of the most commented or most read?
If you wanted to decide how many of the highlighted articles to show? And maybe even choose how they’re organized?
An example: Let’s assume that you want to visualize ten articles, ordered at random, from a list of articles that you’ve chosen to highlight.
What we need is something much more functional than the classic sticky posts that WordPress offers, so, taking advantage of our blog’s re-styling process, a few months ago I decided to develop a plugin that meets all the needs described above.
Featured Posts Plugin with thumbnails
This plugin let’s you add – to any spot on your blog’s sidebar – a section dedicated to the articles you’d like to highlight. How it works is very simple: once it’s installed and activated you can decide which articles to add to the highlights section, how many to display, the display order mode and the size of the image retrieved (it takes the first image in the article and automatically resizes it using the “timthumb.php” script).
Installation of the Featured Posts Plugin
The installation, as with all WordPress plugins, is extremely easy. After you’ve downloaded the file, just follow these simple steps:
- Extract the archive “featured-posts” to your “plugins” folder (/wp-content/plugins/).
- Activate the Plugin “Featured posts”.
- On the WordPress Administration Panel click on the menu: Aspetto > Widget.
- Drag the Widget “Featured posts” to your blog’s sidebar in the spot you’d like to show the section dedicated to highlighted articles.
- Configure the various options available in the plugin.
Administration of the Featured Posts Widget (highlighted articles)
A small control panel allows you, in this order, to:
- Specify a title to be shown on the sidebar.
- Choose the number of articles to display in this section.
- Choose the way in which the articles will be ordered.
- Define the dimensions of the image that will be created.
Below you can see a screenshot of the Widget control panel.
Featured Posts Widget in action
To add an article to the list of highlighted articles all you need to do is select it in the box you’ll find on the article management page, as seen below (click to enlarge the image):
A live preview of the widget at work is available on our blog’s sidebar, and below I’ve added a screenshot showing the Featured Posts widget in action:
Use the widget to your theme as a function
This plugin can be used as a widget or as a function hard coded in your theme.
As for the function, the usage is as it follows:
<?php
$args = array(
'title' => 'Featured Posts',
'numberposts' => 5,
'orderby' => 'DESC',
'widththumb' => 73,
'heightthumb' => 73,
'beforetitle' => '<h3>',
'aftertitle' => '</h3>'
);
featured_posts_YIW( $args );
?>
By default:
- the title is: “Featured Posts”;
- the posts shown are: 5;
- thumbnail’s width and height is: 73 pixel;
- the title is wrapped with an: H3 tag.
Parameters
**title**
(string) Set the text and style of the Page list’s heading.
**numberposts**
(integer) Sets the number of Posts to display.
**orderby**
(string) Sort posts by one of various values (separated by space), including:
- ‘author’ – Sort by the numeric author IDs;
- ‘category’ – Sort by the numeric category IDs;
- ‘content’ – Sort by content;
- ‘date’ – Sort by creation date;
- ‘ID’ – Sort by numeric post ID;
- ‘menu_order’ – Sort by the menu order. Only useful with pages and attachments;
- ‘mime_type’ – Sort by MIME type. Only useful with attachments;
- ‘modified’ – Sort by last modified date;
- ‘name’ – Sort by stub;
- ‘parent’ – Sort by parent ID;
- ‘password’ – Sort by password;
- ‘rand’ – Randomly sort results;
- ‘status’ – Sort by status;
- ‘title’ – Sort by title;
- ‘type’ – Sort by type.
**widththumb – heightthumb**
(integer) Sets thumbnail’s width and height.
**beforetitle – aftertitle**
(string) Sets wrap tag for the title.
Personalizing the plugin
The plugin provides the following CSS classes that can be adapted to your blog’s aesthetic characteristics:
- .widget_featured-posts {Defines the background image of the widget’s title}
- .widget_featured-posts li {For each element in the list it defines: minimum height, margins and padding, character dimension and lower border}
- .widget_featured-posts li:last-child {Eliminates the border of the last element in the list}
- .widget_featured-posts img {Adds a border to the images}
- .widget_featured-posts img.alignleft {Specifies the image alignment}
- .widget_featured-posts li a {Defines the color of hypertext links}
- .widget_featured-posts li:hover {Defines a background color when you hover over list elements}
- .widget_featured-posts li:hover img {Defines a border color when you mouse over images}
It’s possible to use personalized images by adding them to the plugin’s “images” folder (/wp-content/plugins/featured-posts/images/).
Internationalizing the plugin
The widget is localized for the translation of all text present, it has been released in both Italian and English.
Inside, the source files (language/follow-us.pot) are present so anyone can generate dictionary files for their specific language.
Languages available
- English
- Italian
- Brazil (thanks to Fernando Lopes)
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Support Forum
For any clarifications, suggestions, or criticism you can leave a comment on Forum Support.
Official Page on wordpress.org
The plugin has been added to wordpress.org plugins hosting directory and you can also find that at the following address.
Release notes
Version 1.5
- fixed: timthumb vulnerability
Version 1.4
- Add: ability to use the plugin as a widget and as a function within the template
- Add: documentation to use the widget as a function
- Add: possibility to using the image provided by the function “the_post_thumbnail()” if it is available
Version 1.3
- Add: brazilian language (thanks to Fernando Lopes)
- Fixed: problem with the float image
Version 1.2
- Fixed: problem with the draft post
Version 1.1
- Fixed: resolved conflict with wordpress sticky post
Version 1.0 (Initial Version)
- Italian language
- English language
- Ability to choose the number of articles displayed on the sidebar
- Ability to choose thumbnail dimensions
- Ordering:
- Random
- By title
- By date
- By author
- By last modification
- by ID
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Versione: 1.5
Pubblicato: 01 February 2010
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Absolutely fantastic tool. I’ve already installed it on my 3 blogs and will be using it regularly!!
Thanks for the compliments, max, and welcome to your inspiration web!
I love wordpress plugins, i appreciate you for this
great plugin, keep it up good work. Thanks!
Thank you mery
We try to do our best
YIW Staff
Hi
congratulations for your great plugin ! I followed the installation process and i can see the featured post, but the widget take the css of the theme (mystique) and not his own css. How can i modify it ?
Thanks
Hi andreid,
welcome to YIW and thanks for the compliments.
Try to copy and paste in the stylesheet of your blog’s graphic theme all the rules contained into the plugin’s stylesheet.
Let me know if you still have problems.
Thanks for your response Nando, i tried to paste the code in the style.css but, it didn’t work.
Add this rule to the stylesheet the plugin:
.clearer {height:0px;overflow:hidden;margin:0px;clear:both;}…and let me know!
Great Nando, you’re the best ! It works know, the titles are aligned. Thanks again for your precious help !
You’re welcome, andreid!
Is it possible to use the plugin without dragging it to your sidebar in the “appearance > widgets” section? I wanted to add it to my “right.php” file but am kind of lost right now. Any ideas?
First of all, I love this plugin! I’ve been waiting forever for someone to develop a featured posts plugin that I can easily put on my sidebar with a widget.
It works great, but because I have some categories that do not display on the main page of my blog, I cannot include any of those posts on my widget! Is there a workaround for this?
Hi Elizabeth, welcome to YIW and thanks for the compliments!
What used to exclude categories on the home page?
Nando, is there a way to use php code to call for the featured posts? I don’t have a sidebar so was wondering if I can insert it into the “right.php”. Is this possible? I appreciate your help, thanks!
Hi Gman, welcome to YIW.
At the moment the plugin does not have the function to manually add the widget anywhere on the blog. I’m working on, and maybe in a future release will add this feature, which can be useful.
I use Simply Exclude.
Most likely this is a conflict with this plugin.
Try to do the following: in my plugin open the file called “index.php”, find this line of code:
query_posts('caller_get_posts=1&meta_key=featured&meta_value=1&showposts='.$showposts.'&orderby='.$orderby.'');
and change it by adding the parameter “cat” with the id of all the categories you want to view, example (cat = 2,6,17,38):
query_posts('cat=2,6,17,38&caller_get_posts=1&meta_key=featured&meta_value=1&showposts='.$showposts.'&orderby='.$orderby.'');
Let me know if it works.
Ok, I tried it. The good news is that now posts from those categories are showing up. The bad news is that only posts from those categories are showing.
In that sense only post these categories are showing? You put the id of all categories?
Paste here the line that you edited so I try to see.
Hi, I’ve loaded the widget and the text displays but it does not display the image. Do you have any tips?
Hi Dave, I would see the page, you can put a link?
I’m having the same issue. The post shows, and I can style the header, but the pic breaks. Any thoughts?
Hi Jason, ss I said to Dave, I would see the page, you can put a link so I can see the error?
This isn’t getting thumbnails from older posts. Any post that was made before I installed it returns a broken image link, while any post I make after installing it shows up fine. Any ideas?
Hi BigAl, perhaps the problem is due to the location of the images. Try to go over old posts and try to update the post. Tell me if it works now.
Hi Nando, I’ve removed it temporarily, as I’ve got some new content up that I don’t want interfered with. Two things are happening. In the sidebar, the post title is listed with a broken pic. Also, the feature seems to be taking over the main post area of my page and showing the featured post there, to the exclusion of other posts. That’s a problem.
Hi Jason,
the problem with the images most likely to be caused by write permission denied on the cache folder that is inside the root plugin.
Try to give write permission on this folder.
For the other problem I may have understood what it is. The next release may have been resolved.
Wait a few days please.
Here’s a link and the widget is at the bottom of the right sidebar.
http://www.ed.co.nz
This is the path of an image that the plugin should generate:
http://www.ed.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/featured-post-with-thumbnail//scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.ed.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dreamstime_6254886-150×150.jpg&h=73&w=73&zc=1
This is the error message:
Unable to create file ./cache/97fb272621237875d1f77bce29df8f20.png Because Permission denied
It appears that you do not have write permissions on the cache folder that is inside the root plugin.
Try to give write permission on this folder and let me know.
Thanks Nando – that has worked perfectly.
You’re welcome, Dave!
Thanks for the response Nando. I’m unclear which permissions to adjust.
wp-content/featured-post-with-thumbnail/index.php/cache?
or is is a different file. And to what settings?
Thanks for you efforts.
jc
Hi Jason,
You must give write permissions to the folder called “cache” which is located in the root folder of the plugin.
This is a great plugin.
How do I change which image appears as the thumbnail?
I use Thesis theme and it generates a thumbnail automatically from a post image that is not in the post itself but in something called “Post Images and Thumbnail” (see here http://bit.ly/ayo68W). I would like to use that thumbnail.
Hi Yael,
in the next release (which probably would release the next week) we will also implement this function. JustB is helping me in the development of new features.
Stay pending
awesom plugin, just what i need
but, i have the same little problem like the post above with Thesis Theme.
Thesis makes thumbnail from image that you dont post directly into post, and your plugin does. So unless you specify Thesis to make thumbnail from specific image url, your plugin and Thesis dont cooperate
tbh, its not big deal. just you need to make each thumbnail for Thesis manualy then. would be nice if they both make it from same source.
Hi Igor and thanks!
Read the answer I gave on a Yael and waiting for the next release.
Awesome, I was looking for something like this the other day for my cichlid website. Thank you. This will make my life mucho easier.
Hi cichilid, thanks for the compliments and welcome to your inspiration web!
How can I put this widget in my header?
Hi roro, wait for the new version we are about to release.
Ciao, Nando,
mi piace molto il to plugin et comé sto facendo 2 site mi piacerebbe usarlo.
Il problema viene dal widget : non ne ho perche ho bisogno di tutto lo spazio.
Dunque mi piacerebbe sapere come fare per includerlo nel articolo.php o pagina.php
piacere
Albarsark
Hi Albarsark,
tomorrow we release the new version of the plugin that allows you to do what you’re asking.
Awesome! great job!
Just one question: I only need to change the CSS to be horizontal instead of vertical?
—–
Impressionante! grande lavoro!
Appena una domanda: Devo soltanto cambiare il CSS per essere orizzontale anziché il verticale?
Hello! Love this, totally did what I needed to (just had to edit a little bit of html)
EXCEPT… I’d love to control how it’s ordered, and I saw that the new function includes sorting by numeric category IDs. Is there a way yet to omit or not include categories?
–I’m displaying the thumbnails as a grid on my home page, and I’d like to be able to control which featured item shows up where. I was thinking about making a category for each grid space, but I don’t want it to include posts from any other category.
Thanks!
Hi roro,
yes, is simply the css. just a display inline or float left assigned to the list.
@will lanni: to include or exclude certain categories from featured post you would add the category parameter in the following line:
get_posts('meta_key=featured&meta_value=1&numberposts='.$showposts.'&orderby='.$orderby);
and change it as in this example:
get_posts('category=3,6,7&meta_key=featured&meta_value=1&numberposts='.$showposts.'&orderby='.$orderby);
to display the featured post of categories 3, 6 and 7.
category
(integer) (optional) Only show posts from this category ID. Making the category ID negative (-3 rather than 3) will show results not matching that category ID. Multiple category IDs can be specified by separating the category IDs with commas – but an array of IDs does not work.
Hey, how can i get an image from the post if there are no photos particullary but it’s image file gallery ?
hi Szabi, you get the picture in the same way, the script takes the first image it finds in the post.
Thank you for the response, I just found a button at my admin page that says add thumbnail, i dont know if it’s from you or not, but it did what i wanted.
Can I get the post excerpts to show next to the thumbnail ?
Yes, if you want you can also view the excerpts.
Find this line of code:
<h4 class="featured-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?> rel="nofollow">"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
and below add this new line:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
Thanks for this plugin. I been looking for something like this for the past 2 hours.
You’re welcome, John.
Ciao.
Ho installato correttamente il plugin, ma al momento dell’attivazione compare il seguente messaggio:
“Il plugin non può venir attivato perché genera un errore fatale.”
Forse ho sbagliato qualcosa?
Grazie,
Stefania
Ciao Stefania, questo errore è molto strano, non vorrei sia compromesso l’archivio che haiscaricato.
Prova a riscaricarlo nuovamente e ripetere tutta la procedura di installazione, fammi sapere se ti restituisce sempre lo stesso errore.
Hi,
the plugin is great but I can’t fix the text formating
http://www.mmabrawl.com/
I tried to edit the CSS and the featured-post-with-thumbnail/index.php but I do not get the result I want. How can I set up the text size to 12 pixels?
Hi zdot,
in the root folder of the plugin find the file featured-post.css.
Open this file, find the following line of code:
. widget_featured-posts li (line-height: 20px; margin: 0! important; padding: 0.75em 0! important; font-size: 90%; height: left; height: 80px; min-height: 80px; border -bottom: 1px solid # c6c5c5;)
and change the value of the font-size.
hi , thanks for a great plugin . i have been looking for something like this. but i need help with something. the title is not showing up unless i hover over the thumbnail. And i want to decrease the size and have the text wrap to the left og the image like your site….and how do i get bars in between the thumbnails like you….here is my site http://www.journeyofablackearedkite.com/
Hi, great plugin. I am having few problems. The thumbnail is showing up but not the title unless I hover over the thumbnail. And also how do I get the bar between each post like your site. My website is http://www.journeyofablackearedkite.com/
Hi kasandra,
can show me a screenshot of the plugin in action on your blog?
Is there a way to show thumbnails with posts that don’t have images and only consist of YouTube or Vimeo videos. Alternatively, is there a way to manually add images to the missing thumbnails? Please see my blog down the right side bar.
http://www.andywhiteley.com/blog
Thanks.
Hi Andy,
if you use the latest version of wordpress (2.9) you can use the new features add to the post thumbnail
This is a screenshot of how to.
Hi Nando,
The app looks great. I have installed it, but can’t get it to display any posts. any ideas ?
http://www.sandpitcrew.com/wordpress/
Thanks!
Sorry.
Not to worry. I realised I have to tick the featured post box.
Thanks for the awesome plugin!
You’re welcome, ch’an!
Nando! Thanks for the help on that! My other question is about reverse ordering by date. Right now I’m ordering by date, and it’s showing the most recent post first, and the oldest post last.
We’d like to re-order that to keep the oldest posts at the top, and the newest ones at the bottom. I’m still using the widget version, so I’m looking at the featured-post-with-thumbnail/index.php code. I’m not seeing where to alter the $orderby date to reverse it?
Hi Will,
find the following line of code in the file “index.php” (line 119)
$featured_posts = get_posts('meta_key=featured&meta_value=1&numberposts='.$showposts.'&orderby='.$orderby);
and add
order=asc
thus:
$featured_posts = get_posts('meta_key=featured&meta_value=1&order=asc&numberposts='.$showposts.'&orderby='.$orderby);
Order: how to sort $orderby. Valid values:
* ‘ASC’ – Ascending (lowest to highest).
* ‘DESC’ – Descending (highest to lowest).
Default: DESC
Also, is it possible to get a link to a paypal donate button in English? My translator isn’t working on the page you linked to for some reason.
Or… even better, what is the email to donate to?
Hey, great plugin! I just want to change a little thing. When your text reaches the end of the line a new one they are not aligned.
link
Another thing: is it possible to add some text from the post, just to fill the empty space?
Thanks again!
For some reason the link didn’t appear
http://www.panoview.co.nz/test/fpm.JPG
Thank you Lucas, we’ll fix this.
I have 2.9 and tried manually adding a thumbnail from a url by the method you suggested, but it just seems to insert it into the actual post, which is not what I want.
Also tried adding a ‘thumbnail’ custom field and url, doesn’t work either.
Would be good if the plugin automatically inserted YouTube and Vimeo etc. thumbnails if it couldn’t find an image in the post.
Ok, used a workaround to get the manual thumbnails working. When using Set Thumbnail > From URL there is no ‘Use As Thumbnail’ button. Had to us the ‘From Computer’ option to upload to the Media Library.
The only problem now is that thumbnails aren’t aligned with the auto generated ones in the sidebar and seem to be bypassing the css for some reason.
http://www.andywhiteley.com/blog
Hi Andy, and welcome to YIW.
I can’t see the widget in your blog, it seems you’ve commented it out.
Can you reactivate it?
Thank you
Great plugin! I was hoping to be able to change the font – is there an easy way to do that? Thanks for your help!
Hi Liz, and welcome to YIW
The widget is given the CSS class : “.widget_featured-posts” so you can apply a new font with the following CSS code :
.widget_featured-posts {
font-family: "list-of-your-fonts";
}
I can’t get the font size to resize to match the rest of my blog. I’ve changed the CSS, and it’s still bigger than my normal sidebar header font. How can I fix this?
Hi Al,
can you give a link to a page using the plugin?
Thanks
It seems that manual thumbnails have different margin and padding settings in the css to the auto generated ones.
Any way to fix this?
This looks like the exact plugin I have been searching for but unfortunately I can’t get the images to work
My images are stored in a different subdomain to the normal site and when it tries to create it’s thumbnail something appears to go wrong?
It’s trying to call this path
http://www.lazygamer.co.za/wp-content/plugins/featured-post-with-thumbnail/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://images.lazygamer.co.za/2010/03/FFD_MGS_SC.jpg&h=73&w=73&zc=1
The image path is fine but I get the following error when viewing that link
“file not found images./2010/03/FFD_MGS_SC.jpg”
Any ideas?
Hi Gavin, have you tried setting the correct permission on that folder?
Hi I think all the rights are correct… from what I can see the problem is that the plugin is looking for the images in a subfolder of wordpress where mine are being stored in a parent folder further up the tree….
Any idea on what I need to change?
my images are in public_html/images and my wordpress is in public_html/wp-content
Hi, this is a fantastic plugin, thanks. Just one thing – the thumbnails are appearing on a separate line to the titles and excerpt. I have tried resizing the thumbnails and text, but they are still appearing on separate lines. Any clues would be appreciated
You’re welcome, Ri.
I can see a page with the plugin in action?
Hi Nando,
We run a multi-author blog ( http://www.lifeasahuman.com ) on WPMU. I really like your plugin but I have a question for you. Would it be possible to have it randomly display a set number of articles from the archive ‘without’ having to tag them as featured in the edit screen? I am looking for an elegant way to to do this. If your widget had settings to allow for the selection of all categories, the ability to exclude pages and certain categories, and the ability to randomly display articles with a refresh every hour or something like that, it could work beautifully for us and I am sure for many others as well.
Just a thought
Cheers,
Gil
P.S. Really great site!
Hi gil,
you’re welcome! Sorry for the delay of this answer.
You ask what can be done if we can find the time try to make a new version that includes these new features you requested.
Take care
Genial post and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Gratefulness you for your information.
You’re welcome!
Amazing plugin! I’m trying ti use in a blog’s header, but with horizontal aligment.
I don’t know wath the problem is, but I tried ti change all the css code and nothing happened.
I’m I missing something?
Hi fred,
just set the list with the display property set to inline.
Do you Have tried?
I’ve installed the plugin – so far so good. Checked the post I wanted to feature – The title with link showed up but no image from the post. I read the comments above but don’t understand the ‘cache permission’ – where do I find the ‘root folder of the plugin’?
How do you get the plugin to display text also?
So far mine only shows an image and no text
Thank you for this excellent plugin! It’s exactly what I needed.
I do have a few questions. I am very new to wordpress, so please forgive my total ignorance.
I am trying to remove the default background image behind the widget title, and also to change the hypertext link font color and size?
I understand I have use the CSS classes you have given above to do that. But where exactly do I enter the classes on the style.css? And what exactly do I enter?
I’ve tried everything and still can’t seem to get it to work.
Thank you for your help!
Matthew
Hey this plugin looks great and almost exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Are we able to add this to the top of the posts column and not just the sidebar?
I’d like to have three highlighted posts above my posts and aligned horizontally. Is this possible?
Yes, you can, my friend. After hours trying, look the result:
http://www.fredperes.net/lu/
I’ve changed the css file. Good results in IE6, IE7, Safari, Firefox, Opera
Very good plugin, but I have problems with some WP themes. Widget doesn’t display correctly, all featured posts looks messy. I figured, that it is because missing: Featured Posts, lines.
Some themes just doesn’t add this line, and goes just with: Featured Posts
How can I fix this problem?
Sorry for my English, hope you understand me.
Thanks again for nice plugin.
All my html lines gone
Can you give me a link where I can see the plugin working?
grazie mille per il plugin! e veramente buono
ma sono cercando la maniera di far che il thumbnail si puó clickare anche
non so molto di programazione, ma sto sicuro che non debbe essere complicato
vi prego di aiutarmi
sorry for my broken italian!
grazie
Miguel
Would you provide option to only show list of featured posts but without thumbnails? That would be very useful.
BTW, I found two bugs for your theme. You should use function wp_enqueue_script for loading jQuery and also to provide link to older comments.
hi nando !
It’s me Alex
it is very usefull plugin.
but I think plugin don’t work with 2-columns templete
maybe someone told to you about it?
What is your opinion?
sorry
with 3-columns template
Hi Nando,
I am tring to find how many featured posts I have in my WordPress Blog. I want to add a filter in the Admin area (edit.php page) like under Posts like: All (n) | Published (n) | Scheduled (n) | Drafts (n) | Trash (n) | Featured (n)
Any idea on how to do it?
The others are done by a wp_count_posts function…
Thanks a lot for the great work. The plugin is wonderful.
Ciao
Luca
Very cool plugin
Thanks alot
this plugin looks so great – i would love to use it on our site but can’t get it to work – no image, no text… i switched on the “yes” option in the featured-post-box in the article. i use the thesis theme. if you like to, you can check out http://www.appstory.tv – “featured” is at the bottom. i’d be greatful forW any advice!
Hi Nando, thank you very much for this plugin.
It’s working great with pictures already in my site, but in the posts with pictures taken from another places, like flickr, is not showing the image. Is that ok, or there is anything I can do to fix it?. Thanks again!!!
How do I get the plugin to respect the theme’s css?
The font text of the listed items is totally crap.
nvm, fixed. I wonder why the list items are in between a H4 tag. wtf? any special reason for that?
Hi,
Thanks for this great plugin, I love it !
I made a french translation, if you want to include it into your archive, you can download it here.
I edited this line in index.php file :
load_plugin_textdomain('featured-post','wp-content/plugins/featured-posts/language/');changed by
load_plugin_textdomain('featured-post','wp-content/plugins/featured-post-with-thumbnail/language/');to make it work.
I didn’t notice the wrong path and was wondering why my translation file didn’t load. Thank you for pointing it out. And I suggest it to be changed this way:
load_plugin_textdomain(‘featured-post’,'wp-content/plugins/’.plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)).’/);
This is just in case the plugin’s directory name changes in future.
I am going to try this plugin out. I really like what I see in the features. If all goes well, I will be writing up a plugin review at WPAddict.net
Thank you and wonderful idea for a plugin!
Would love to have my text to the side like on this site. Mine shows below the images. Is there an easy way to do this?
This looks extremely awesome!!! I’m gonna try it now and see if it works well on my blog
Hi, after installing the plugin… the font size is so big! I tried to change it but there’s nothing happened even if i set the size to 50px or less. And also, how can i remove the underline of the links? Thank you so much!! I need your plugin badly!!
here’s the screenshot:
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8122/582010104420am.png
I have the same problem and it seems like the css file is inactive… and it also seem like the author never reply to this solution…
Hi.
Thx for the great plugin. unfortunatley im not able to customise it, as it wont respect the css code.
I tried custom font size, and image align.
its dosnt look good at all. Any idea on how i can fix that?
Here is a link http://hypnotikmusicgroup.com/blog/category/blog/
when do i put this code ( wich file)
‘Featured Posts’,
‘numberposts’ => 5,
‘orderby’ => ‘DESC’,
‘widththumb’ => 73,
‘heightthumb’ => 73,
‘beforetitle’ => ”,
‘aftertitle’ => ”
);
featured_posts_YIW( $args );
?>
thanks
Hey,
I’ve just managed to get this wonderful plugin to work.
One question though:
Is it possible to make also the thumbnails clickable and not only the post title?
Hi
I am currently using your plugin but my image and post heading are not showing parallel to each other but instead one after the other. Could you please help me with this one.
You can see it at http://www.dailyitech.com on the right bottom corner of the blog.
Hello Jay and welcome to YIW. There are some adjustements you need to do in your CSS:
From .sidebox ul li rule:
– remove width:320px;
– add margin-bottom:5px; (or whatever dimension you like)
– add border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC;
From .sidebox ul li a:link, .sidebox ul li a:visited rule
– remove border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC;
From h4.featured-title
– add float:right;
– add width:245px;
Hope this helps
Thanks for the code but it didn’t exactly work because there is no h4.featured-title in my css. I would be really grateful if you could recommend an alternative method.
Once again, thank you and your help is deeply appreciated.
thanks i figured out the h4.featured is in the css for the plugin.
Hello, and thanks for this pluggin. FYI on my server I was not able to use the timthumb.php script using the absolut path for the image:
http://www.domain.com/wp-content/plugins/featured-post-with-thumbnail/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mila_kunis-216x300.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1
However the relative path worked just fine:
http://www.domain.com/wp-content/plugins/featured-post-with-thumbnail/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mila_kunis-216x300.jpg&h=150&w=150&zc=1
I modified the index.php file for the pluggin’s catch_that_image function around line 67 and compensated for this problem.
function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts, $featured_post_plugin_path;
$first_img = '';
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all('//i', $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
// To compensate for my servers inability to resize from absolute path I have removed the http://www.domain.com from the image url.
preg_match("/^(http:\/\/)?([^\/]+)/i", $first_img, $matches);
$first_img = ereg_replace($matches[0], "", $first_img);
if(empty($first_img)) { //Defines a default image
$first_img = $featured_post_plugin_path . "images/default.gif";
}
return $first_img;
}
It works for me now, and though you might want to know about my little hack. There is probably a better way to handle this also
. Thanks again.
Thank you jesusOmar.
I’ll try to reproduce this problem
Hello – great plugin, it does exactly what I needed.
My question: is there a way to have each post set as a featured post by default? In other words, without having to go and check “Yes” on each post? I would love to have it set that way if possible. Thanks
Hello Scott and thank you.
We’re developing a new version of this plugin and we’re considering to add this featured. Stay tuned
I had this installed and it was working when the website was on my subdomain. Now the images aren’t showing up. I’ve set the schmod settings of the cache file to write enabled. Any ideas? I love this plugin by the way.
Here’s the domain in question –> http://www.antimicrobial.com
hola, en primer lugar felicidades por el plugins.
En mi caso no me funciona bien, uso el tema SOLARPRESS y me coloca el texto debajo de la imagen, no al lado como debería de ir.
Me puedes ayudar?
Un Saludo y gracias de antemano.
Hello Jose and thank you (I’ll write in English, for I’m not too proficient in other languages).
You should add a class to the list and try to add these CSS rules (suppose featured-posts as the name of the class):
ul.featured-posts img{
float:left;
}
ul.featured-posts li{
clear:left;
margin-bottom:10px;
border-bottom:1px solid #CCC;
padding-bottom:10px;
}
ul.featured-posts h5{
width:200px;
float:left;
}
It should give you a good starting point. Take care
Hi, is there any possibility to just add the sticky posts?
Thanks in advance!
(… sorry my last comment) I mean showing the sticky posts without choosing the option at the “Edit Post” screen in WP… the plugin must take all the sticky posts and uses as the ones to be shown at Widget area or wherever in the theme hardcoding it????
Hello rubencio,
I didn’t understand very well.
You mean that all of the posts are to be shown as featured?
I mean all my posts that are checked as sticky posts (that’s an option built in WordPress) will go to the your widget in order to be shown without checking the option you’ve built at the Edit Post Menu.
I mean actually, in your plugin, you have the option at the “Edit Post” section, to choose if add (or not) a post in your widget. I just want to forgot about this step and just make your plugin “taking” my already marked as “sticky posts” and show them in the sidebar????
We’ll consider putting this feature in the next version of the plugin.
Thank you for the feedback
Any idea about my issue? I updated my chmod settings on the cache file. It’s pulling the summary info, but no pics . I’d like to get this working again as it’s a pretty sharp feature. Like I said it was working right out of the box on the subdomain I had it installed on. I don’t think anything else is different.
Anybody have some input?
Hello Nate,
sorry for the late answer. Can you show me the section where the plugin is? I can’t find it in the domain you’ve posted.
Thank you
Very Good site, thank yo mister, it’s help’s me!
Thanks for a great plug in. I have the same problem as Matthew at comment #93. I’m a complete newby at WordPress and don’t know css.
Can you please help or explain step by step to remove the image it currently displays behind the widget header?
Thanks in advance.
Hello Nicolette,
you have to modify the ‘featured-post.css’ file included in the plugins’ folder at row 6, removing the rule:
background:url('images/titlesidebar3.gif') no-repeat top leftThanks for using our plugin
Ps We’ll be releasing the new version soon: stay tuned.
Hey, I’m trying add the plugin now to my main posts column. It looks like a mess and I don’t know where to start. Link is attached the comment.
Did no one see my comment?
Hello Benjamin.
I’m really sorry, I was sure i replied to your comment.
Anyway we discovered that in some situations the plugin fail to get the right path to the images.
If you can wait, before the end of this week we’ll release the new version, that will fix these problems.
Sorry again,
JustB
Thanks Just B! Will look out for the update.
For the life of me I can not get the text to display next to the title and image. Everything else is fine, but no text. Is it a excerpt?
Line 132 on index.php
<a href="”> CODE HERE
If I put
or there, text displays, but its ugly, broken, and I dont want to fool around. Is this the only way to have text display next to the images?
Line 132 on index.php
<a href=""> CODE HERE
If I put
orthere, text displays, but its ugly, broken, and I dont want to fool around. Is this the only way to have text display next to the images?You can delete my last two posts, I was trying to post code but couldn’t get the code tags to work. I tweaked my butt off and configed a bit but I have it looking nice on retro-replay.com! im now afraid to update because after my tedious tweaking I forgot half my moves!
Hello dave,
at this very moment the plugin isn’t meant to show text or post excerpt, you can do it hacking the main file (like you did on retro-replay.com.
We are working fixing bugs that we found until now, we’ll consider adding this enhancement in future versions.
Thank you,
JustB
Ps
have you wrapped your code in <code> tags?
I’m really wanting to use this in two different widget areas. One having all categories in the list and one area for just one category.
Any suggestions?
I had problems with css too. I tried to change the class “widget_featured-posts” but nothing happened. When I saw this area of site with Firebug, I didn´t see any class with the same name. So I went to index.php file and swapped the class “clearfix” for “widget_featured-posts”. So now the css code runs ok. Maybe a good thing to change in your very good plugin!
Thanks a lot for your great job!
Carlos, good call. I was struggling to figure out why the css wasn’t taking, and not showing in firebug. I slipped the class in (in addition to “clearfix” – that’s to solve ie bugs, no?) and it’s all working as it should.
Thanks for sharing this info.
Strange. I am using the same plugin on another site, no issues.
Nando: your plugin rocks!
Wow Thanks! I was going crazy for hours to look for a solution. To everyone that doesn´t load the css, use this fix, it works. Great Plugin by the way
Hey, I really love the plugin. It was just what I needed.
I have a problem with the way the text appears after the thumbnail. I have a dark theme and the text is dark. Is there a way to make the text appear white so it’s readable before you mouseover?
I know the mouseover color is near white so that may be a problem with white text, maybe blue text would be better, or a dark mouseover color.
Take a look at my blog to see what I mean.
Can you help with this stuff? I’d love it.
Thanks in advance!
Nico
Hey
Great plugin but i’m having issues with the the post title appearing below the image with a bullet point. I’m using the new WP 3 with the twentyten theme.
I’ve been amending the css but still can’t get the title to sit to the right of the image.
Any ideas?
Iain
hay,so thank you for this plugin, i love it,
korean entertainment
When is the new version of the plugin coming out?
thank you so much for the plugin. this was exactly what i needed. is there a way we could put the title on top of the picture instead? and how do we place the excerpt beside the thumbnail so it wraps around the pic instead of being below it. Thanks!
Hey! Thanks so much for this awesome plugin! Just a couple of issues.
1) I can’t seem to get a thumbnail to show and I don’t know why. I use Thesis on my site and the first image in the post is an image added into the Thesis post image area. How do I get that picture’s thumbnail to show in this widget?
2) I added your code to include the post excerpt and I love it except I don’t want that space between lines of text as it is now:
http://globetrotterdiaries.com/
Is there any way to remove those so the text is single-spaced? Thanks so much!
Hi again! Also wondering how to shorten the excerpts to a particular length (like a certain number of characters so that I just have the text down as far as the thumbnail is high. Thanks so much!
http://your-timeshare.tumblr.com/
http://anti-snoring.posterous.com/anti-snoring
Hi,
thank you very much for your plugin – it looks great and does exactly what I want it too
The trouble is, it is apparently not compatible with my theme jQ. The links are displayed but click doesn’t work.
I’m new to php, but know programming, do you have any direction for me to poke around – where might be the conflict and possible ways to fix it. my URL is below.
Thank you very much for your time!
just like the world says, the plugin is great.
can i display the image horizontally with title at the bottom?
(it will goes just like http://gawker.com-featured post in header)
can i make the image clickable and liked to the post?
Hi, this doesn’t look like the best place to get support for the plugin anymore. Is there a better place, a forum or something?
Evidently a lot of people are in need of assistance with various problems. You’re probably super busy but perhaps you could start a knowledge base, or else try to get back to us about some of the issues people are having with it.
Still love the plugin. Probably the best one of its type out there.
Greatly appreciated.
http://trig.com/tramadol59/biography
Hey there, great plugin! But I have a little problem… there is no distance between the featured posts. The titles were displaced (see screenshot). Any solution?
http://www.rap-n-blues.com/wp-content/images/problem.jpg
I did a “work around” with a couple of at the end:
<a href="”>
At the moment it fits, but it won’t work if there are more than 2 posts listed.
I’m sorry, the code I posted wasn’t displayed above.
” < a href=" “>
This is a great plugin but when I try to use it, only the index.php is active all the rest is inactive and since it’s inactive, I can’t do anything to the css file… it SUCKS… I try to find solution in the comment section here, and it seems like no one had that solution…. I hate it when good plugin are handle through with no solution… disappointment though
Is it feasible that your writers might instruct the general public how exactly they always make posts of such exceptional calibre? Heck, even the title WordPress Plugin Featured Posts with thumbnails: highlighting your best articles | Your Inspiration Web affects me deeply!
Hi Nando
I added Featured Posts styles to the style.css of the theme (Arjuna1.5.3) and also added this rule:
.clearer {height:0px;overflow:hidden;margin:0px;clear:both;}
But it still dosn’t work.
me too !! It didn’t work !! Its like the css is complelely unresponsive to any change.. what to do?? somebody help..
Hi Developers,
It is definitely a nice plugin for featured posts, but I am having severe issues with the CSS as it seems to be not responding to any change. The images are not showing any border and are very close to the text. Hence it is making the whole thing look really messy !! Really need your help !!
If any one else has a solution, please bring it up…
Thanx..
Thanks, it is really nice plugin
Hi..this is what I’ve been looking for. Just one question, can I display the tumbnails side by side, instead of in the “list” format ?
Hello …. wonderful plugin, I use the index, and I would like to place a line between the news … look at the css but do not make it … a little help please
I’m having difficulties using the plugin as a function. I have it display five of the featured posts, set to display randomly. Except when using it like this, it always shows the same 5 posts in the same order without changing. Using the plugin as a widget works fine though, but I’d rather not use it in that way. Any thoughts on how to get it to display 5 of the featured posts randomly?
I have done some customization to this but am stuck on one thing I’d like to be able to do and am looking for some help. I have injected this into my header and added some divs to create some effects on these posts. I want to be able to have 4 going across the top of my page but I want the first one to be selectable by a class. meaning all these are placed within a UL and it itterates for Each featured post stick that into an LI. that is how I read that. Basically what Im trying to do is view the screenshot in this link. I want to be able to flag the first one so I can attach an image overlay on that first element to almost make it like a featured feature.
The screenshot makes sense.
http://cr8tive.co/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/custom/images/demo.jpg
Please help
Hi, the plugin is installed in the index, set it to a single news of the category B, how do I replace it with another script to display three stories of the category B? thanks
Great work in this widget!
Question:
How do can trim the post title to an x number of characters? and how do I display “…” if the title is over the x number of characters?
-Thanks!
basically what you need to do is create a custom function in your functions.php or it might be custom_function.php
try this
function short_title() {
$mytitleorig = get_the_title();
$html_dedode_title = html_entity_decode($mytitleorig);
$limit = “15″;
$pad=”…”;
if(strlen($html_dedode_title) >= ($limit+3)) {
$html_dedode_title = substr($html_dedode_title, 0, $limit) . $pad; }
$title = htmlentities($html_dedode_title);
echo $title;
}
Then what you need to do is go into the Index.php withinside the plugin folder. and find where you see this line
<a href="”>
REPLACE “the_title” with the words “short_title” removing the ” ” and then you can tweek the number of characters inside the function right now its set to 15 as a test but you can tweek that to whatever you want. Hope that helps
I have an example showing on my site of this because I just did it for you
cr8tive.co
the site is messy right now as Im doing a lot. but you can see that it stops it at 15 characters then appends … at the end you can change that parameter as well if you look back in the function. Let me know if this helps
Josh:
Thank you so much, first for looking into my question and of course answering it.
I just did the changes and it is working great! : )
Good luck!
-Thanks!
hello,
are there any problems with wordpress 3.0.1 ?
thanks,
tom
Hi first of all thank you for the awesome plugins.
Is there a way to display the featured post in a grid fashion like 5 (columns) x 2 (rows) for instance?
Im not so familiar with php coding. Any help would be great!
Thank you in advance
Yes this is possible. Go to my example here cr8tive.co you will see that right now I have 6 featured post’s split into 3 columns and 2 rows. Basically what you will have to do is put a wrapper around the Loop inside the plugin ( a div wrapper) I called mine FeatureMe
here are my styles for feature me
.custom .featureMe {
float:left;
width:507px;
}
I also did this as well becuase you want to float each of the “li” elements to the left so they fill in accordingly.
here are my styles for doing this
.custom .featureMe li {
list-style:none;
text-align:center;
float:left;
margin:0 auto;
padding-right:15px;
}
Now how to actually find where I put my div wrapper. I’m using thesis 1.8 so Im not really sure how you would replicate this where you want to put it but basically this code is injected into the header.
<?php
echo "\t\n”;
$args = array(
‘title’ => ‘Whats HOTT!!!’,
‘numberposts’ => 5,
‘orderby’ => ‘DESC’,
‘widththumb’ => 150,
‘heightthumb’ => 150,
‘beforetitle’ => ”,
‘aftertitle’ => ”
);
featured_posts_YIW( $args );
echo “\t\n”;
?>
Now you will notice that there is some weird artifacts but basically what you want to do is call a div and wrap your PHP call to the plugin. Im not really sure how you are using it but an example would help. I used the plugin in a way where I can inject the PHP portion anywhere I want. You would want to set your number of posts to 10 instead of 5 adjust the width and height accordingly and you might want to do some tweeking. Let me know how I can help and again an example would be helpfull so I can walk you through right where to go and what to do
Thank you for the super fast answer!
AS i said im not familiar with php so ima try my best.
I just got a few questions though :
1. Where do i actually write the css part (with the div wrapper, float etc.,) is in a separate ccs file or a specific file in the plugin’s folder?
2.Is it possible to show excerpts?
Here is the home page of my blog
http://hypnotikmusicgroup.com/blog/
right after the first slide show there is a line of thumbnails of recent post. I would like to have a 5 x 2 grid instead.
Thank you for your answer
okay first, this is inside of a slide show gallery, is it possible for you to remove that slide show first off? I’m using this plugin as PHP not a widget as it is original intention is. This plugin is supposed to be used as a widget in a sidebar so first I think what you will have to do is pull the plugin out of this slide show functionality. you will need to inject this into your code right after your “MyGallery” this is the big promo you have up at the top. If you have the plugin installed you should be able to inject the below PHP code anywhere you want.
‘Whats HOTT!!!’,
‘numberposts’ => 5,
‘orderby’ => ‘DESC’,
‘widththumb’ => 150,
‘heightthumb’ => 150,
‘beforetitle’ => ”,
‘aftertitle’ => ”
);
featured_posts_YIW( $args );
echo “\t\n”;
?>
This will allow you do do some more functionality and customization around the plugin itself.
as far as your css try adding this to your main style sheet.
.home .blog .featureMe {
float:left;
width:507px;
}
*** Make sure you have spaces between each class call so you cant have this
.home.blog.featureMe you need to have spaces.
and you need to add this as well
.home .blog .featureMe li {
list-style:none;
text-align:center;
float:left;
margin:0 auto;
padding-right:15px;
}
Now as far as that PHP block above you need to do customization to the width and height to fit the size of your LI elements.
And Excepts I can work on getting that in there for you as well. That will take some editing of the
wp-contnet>plugins>Featured-post-with-thumbnails>index.php You can use the core wordpress except call which I have to look up. Start with that to begin with.
If you want you can e-mail me for further help as well.
Sorry I can’t give more explination at the moment I’m supposed to be working
OKayyyy!
thanx a lot for your help.
Im gonna try to work on that and i’ll get back at you later.
sorry fr interupting your work.
Thanks
Hello! Amazing plugin, thank you! it really helped me a lot today. I had a few questions though…maybe someone can help!
I’m using the following hardcoded into my home.php page:
”,
‘numberposts’ => 1,
‘orderby’ => ‘DESC’,
‘widththumb’ => 960,
‘heightthumb’ => 412,
‘beforetitle’ => ”,
‘aftertitle’ => ”
);
featured_posts_YIW( $args );
?>
The h3 title is a link but is there any way to get the full image a link? Also using that php code w/ array, is there an easy way to add the excerpt as well?
Here’s a link to check it out in action (it’s the large top image with the title ‘Hello World’) http://dev.wearepapertiger.com/thefreshkids/
Thanks!
Looks like my code didn’t paste properly. Here is an image preview of it: http://grab.by/6LcE
Hello, first I want to say congratulations for a great plugin. There was a definite need for this functionality (I have been looking for a good one). My problem is that I get “stair stepped ” display of the thumbnails and titles. I could send you a jpg of the display. Could you point me in the right direction to correct the display?
Thanks,
Tony
Hi,
I installed your plugin on my blog and it works beautifully. The only problem is the fact that the Featured Posts title color is Black. I noticed in your example above that your Featured Posts title color is white.
Is there a way for me to change the color of my Featured Posts title to a different color? Black blends in too closely with the background image.
Thanks,
Jonny
Hello,
I am having a problem, some of the posts title have “‘ ‘ ” on a word and when is shown in the featured posts plugin i see something like this “Chrome’s bookmarks”
#8217; = right single quotation mark. How can I fix this to only see the ‘ single quotation how is suppose to?
Thanks,
PS: also I am using the code on comment #178
Hi!
How does the cache works? I keep checking the cache folder, but nothing is ever ‘cached’ there…
I have medium to high traffic, and I want to make sure I don’t have many troubles with thumbnail processing, in this case, with timthumb.
Sorry about my English, hope you understand what i mean
any answer would be helpful guys…
Can anyone tell me how would be the syntax for “orderby” to pull the MOST RECENT post from category 1234?
‘oderby’ => ’1234′ ‘DESC’
does not seem to work.
I have just discovered Your blog and i must say I have found quite a few interesting articles (including this one)
great stuff – I will be coming back
I guest they are not responding to blog comments anymore….too bad.
I used featured post plugin and I want to remove below codes
‘beforetitle’ => ”,
‘aftertitle’ => ”
Please let me know whether it’s possible to add text and particular image that I choose
Hello,
Again great plugin!
My question is: there is any way to customize Featured Post with thumbnail so when it grabs the image AND if it is LESS than the size that you specified and if there not image will it show a default email that I can assign?
Thanks in advanced!
Hello!
Why I see only titles of posts. What should I write down in the code that I see part of posts content instead of titles?
Thanks,
Vitaly
Hi,
1. I would like to set up your plugin to work with a specific post type different from posts. Let’s say I create a post_type ‘products’, can I make the plugin to be available for that particular post type only?
2. And what if I need it for more custom post types simultaniously? Let’s say I have these three types: ‘products’, ‘news’, ‘best-practices’ and I need to feature out some posts within any of them and show them in one widget section.
3. And what if I need it for more custom post types simultaniously but separately? I mean if I could and have unabled the plugin for three of my post types to have the ability to put three diferent widget sections on my site.
Thanks!
Thank you, it*s is what i very want
thanks for this work but i have a question:
how can i change font size to 8px?
What if I have 2 images on the post and I want to choose from which one to display on the sidebar’s thumbnail?
I really like the featured post plugin, but the plugin consumes 100% of the web server memory (800MB) and 100% of cpu usage, causing MySQL database crash and my entire website went down
I display around 20-30 thumbnails on the sidebar, anything like this ever happened before anyone ?
Now I disabled the plugin, and everything is back to normal again, the cpu and memory also at its normal usage, I need this plugin to work again, but I’m worry it would crash my site, is there any solution to this crash issue ?
Hi there.
Thank you for a very good plugin youve made. I just have to questions I hope you can help me with.
1: I need it to always show posts from one category. Without my client need to put featured to yes in admin. Like every post posted in certain category gets to be featured. Is this possible?
2: I also need it to sort by another date from my post. I want it to sort by expiration date, is this possible to do? Table name is expiration-date.
I am willing to donate for answers:-)
Brgds. Stian
This is exactly what I’m looking for but I have having ONE problem when I use it. I currently have an image that prints behind my sidebar titles
http://www.shibleysmiles.com….it is a great rectangle with a shamrock. When I added post to the featured post widget each one of my post also is showing up with that image behind the post title which I don’t want. I’m not sure how to remove the image so that all you see is the thumbnail to the left and the post title to the right (with no header image behind the post title)
I have a strange problem (and a fix). Maybe it’s a bug in the_post_thumbnail() (not a PHP coder, so not sure), but we’re doing a blug where default thumbnail size is 220×150, *and* tell your widget these are the dimensions we want, still it [sometimes] cuts it to 150×150.
The fix: When I change in your plugin from
the_post_thumbnail(array($width_thumb,$height_thumb,true));
to
the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’);
It works fine (BTW, I’m ot sure what the “true” does there. Couldn’t find it in the docs). This means that if you add in the widget’s menu an option to use ‘thumbnail’ instead of the w,h fields, we’re in the cleat (the_post_thumbnail() bug or not).
Hope you’d do this, because I hate to have live sites with a patched version of a plugin
Thanks
I have the same problem but I couldn’t fix it by using the
the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’);
instead of
the_post_thumbnail(array($width_thumb,$height_thumb,true));
It still has a fixed square size…
Someone has any suggestions?
Hi there.
Is there a way to sort by a custom field? I use like a post experiator plugin and want the Featured post to sort by that date instead of the posting date. Is this possible?
Hello -
Great plugin, it is extremely easy to use.
Can you tell me if it is possible to have the plugin use in two different sections of the page, with different image size, drawing from different category.
Thanks.
My Post is not showing content, can you please help me fix this?
Is there any way to exclude Digg Digg – buttons that are placed before content from the Featured Posts?
Because when adding Digg Digg that totally breaks the design.
At the moment Digg Digg is more important for traffic than Featured Posts, but I really don’t want to remove it unless I have to
mine is working fine. but hte more important is anybody can tell me how do i edit the height of the image??? i updated it in the widget section but it is not working!
hey first off thanks for this plugin. My question is this I plan to start introducing cache into my wordpress sties such as Super CAche, what effect will this have on the thumbs, will it cache them and just keep the photos up? Thoughts and ideas on what I can do if that is the case?
Hi nice plugin , but i have a question.
Is there is a function that return us the all the feature posts as an array so that we can display feature posts as our design requirments.
Thanks.
Too bad support for this plugin has ceased, as this was the only plugin of it’s kind that was worth installing. Now, with social plugins breaking the design without an option to strip it from the content posts it has sadly been rendered worthless on blogs utilizing this. I’ve tried several social media plugins but none are compatible with this.
Hello,
I am having a problem with this plugin. I started using the featured image in WordPress 3.1.3 and now when I set a post to be feature post. the plugin displays the trimmed thumbnail with not link in the title or in the image.
I would like to keep the old behavior, the plugin looks for the first image and trim it to my specifications and the title and image has the link for the post.
There is any ways to fix this?
I think I created a temp fix for it. I went to the plugin folder, I opened the index.php and in the line 130:
<?php if ( (function_exists('the_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail()) ) :
I just passed an non-existence function, like this:
<?php if ( (function_exists('nothing')) && (nothing()) ) :
now it is working again, but if you have a better way to do this i will like to know.
thanks,
This is certainly the best FEATURED POST plugin available on the net, I will surely use it on my own site.
This plugin uses the old timthumb script that was vulnerable. Please will you update the plugins timthumb file so that any new downloads won’t have that vulnerability.
Thanks so much
Really like the concept. However, I wish the widget would allow for customizable design. The red/orange doesn’t fit with our blog so we can’t use it. If there is an easy way to get rid of that please let me know!
Я использую темную тему(шаблон) на сайте и черные буквы заголовка статьи не просматриваются. Хотелось-бы изменить цвет текста на белый. Подскажите пожалуйста.
С уважением Сергей
Hi,
thanks for your great work.The widget take the css of the theme not its own (my theme is Averin), how can i fix it?
i try this two solution but not fixed:
1. Try to copy and paste in the stylesheet of your blog’s graphic theme all the rules contained into the plugin’s stylesheet.
2. Add this rule to the stylesheet the plugin:
.clearer {height:0px;overflow:hidden;margin:0px;clear:both;}
Thank you…
Gentilissimi, vi scrivo in italiano, spero non sia un problema.
Trovo il plugin ottimo. Ho solo riscontrato un problema sul mio sito:
piazzato il widget nella sidebar in home page, tutto ok; piazzato nella sidebar di single.php mi ha fatto scomparire i commenti ai post. Adesso l’abbiamo tolto e tutto è tornato a posto, ma il widget non funziona più nella sidebar single.php, solo in home page.
Ora non so bene se abbiamo fatto qualcosa che non dovevamo fare. In ogni caso magari l’info vi è utile.
I am running this fantastic plugin on a WP 2.9.2 site.
Will this plugin work on a WP 3.x version?
If anyone could confirm this here that would be a huge help! Thanks everyone!
Hello! On my site http://turizm2all.ru all thumbnails are not located in a column but at different levels. Could you help me please?
The plugin is notworking correctly. It messes up the comments, and other assetsfrom the current post that is displayed. Instead comments or other postrelated information like social media counts are from the last shown post in the featured posts box.
Also described here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-featured-posts-plugin-yafpp-comments-disappear-other-comments-show?replies=3
It’s broken now.
Any workaround??
Hello. Thanks for the great plugin. Everything works fine!
But, tell me please if you can somehow remove the block in a particular recording of a certain category?
For example, in the side of the block is “People of the Internet” in this block will be spinning records only from the section “Internet People”, but certainly those that I put “Yes”. A block below the “Useful in the network” which will spin records just from the section “Useful in the network”, once again, only those whom I put the “Yes”. How to make something like that?
Thank you for your help!
Hello Nando,
Great plugin – been looking for something like this for a long time. I do have one simple question:
When using as a widget, how do I edit the widget to change the featured images from 73×73 to 144×266?
I’ve tried to hardcode it but then I do not know how to edit the CSS.
Please advise.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Miranda
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Is this plugin still available for download? When I click the download button I get to a 404 page.
Where i download this plugin?
Jefferson Copenhaver
superrrrrr
hey, the download-link ist broken. can you fix it please?
Hey nice share. I am gonna try this plugin, and implement it into my blog. Can I use a custom code so I can place it to wherever i want?
Thanks Brooo… this is so nice… i like it
thanks
The thumbnails are nor reflected. Why? Anybody faced with it?
Can i put the plugin in a menu??? what part of the menu i should change to keep it like http://maclife.com
I tried to download this plugin but it directed me to a page with 404 error
my badluck.
hello, i am eking, love you!
I found it here http://www.blogpun.com/wp-content/uploads/featured-post-with-thumbnail.1.4.zip
Thanks a lot, how could I miss this! Still, hopefully the blog owner would be able to update the post soon too.
Hey nice share. I am gonna try this plugin, and implement it into my blog. Can I use a custom code so I can place it to wherever i want?
Hi, would it be possible to have the download link fixed soon?
“Error: File not found”
IMPORTANT: As someone else also wrote in the comments (but I didn’t see this the first time around), the version of TimThumb that is being distributed with this plugin is vulnerable to hackers!
You do not want to use this plugin without upgrading the TimThumb file to the newest version!
I have released a new version of the plugin.
I upgraded to 1.5 and now I don’t have thumbnails displayed! Version 1.4 worked like a charm.
Hi,
I just downloaded the featured post thumbnail plugin, and even though I am doing everything exactly as it is shown here, instead of posts thumbnails, I get the actual page title included as a thumbnail. WHY?
Thank you
Eva
I just upgraded to ver 1.5 from ver 1.4, and the plugin broke! In the Featured Post sidebar, I have only one featured post, although I have enabled 10+ posts to be featured. Moreover, the images have also disappeared. Previously, no problems in ver 1.4.
Here’s my page: http://www.christopherteh.com/blog
Help!
Much like the complaints of the users above me, I too updated the plugin…and now it’s broken
It only shows the story of which article you load. Not the 3-4 I set to appear in the Featured Posts. Please fix, it worked like a charm before.
Next time I know – I won’t update anything before that fix is being tested by others for fair amount of time.
I wanted to get back to 1.4 but I couldn’t find it anywhere on the net…
Everyone un-happy with this update, I found 1.4 version on my hard drive and have uploaded it to Media fire
http://www.mediafire.com/?sdqk44k422i671v
If you want to revert back feel free to, happy I could help out
Thanks Josh, but would you know how to remove the background image that currently appears on my website http://mithunonthe.net/ ?… I’m talking about the red and orange mess behind ‘Featured Posts’ on the top right.
MithunOnTheNet I don’t see what your seeing. All I see is underlined text there the image has a grey border and when you hover over the featured post it turns the underline to white and presents a grey background….
Am I totally missing it? I looked in IE, Firefox and chrome and I don’t see any orange or red mess
I’m doing some digging folks I might have an older version on my drive stand by!
Thanks Josh, 1.4 works perfectly!
Ivan and everyone else, while 1.4 might work perfectly you might want to update the TimThumb as the version in 1.4 is very vulnerable for attacks as others have said, You might want to play around with an update timthumb file to see if you can get it to work with 1.4. Shouldn’t be to hard to accomplish and glad I could help!
I found and activated another plugin from another site…works perfectly. Good luck with this one guys!
Yeah, me too. It’s a pity. This plugin is excellent, but the fact that the developer took nearly a year to fix the timthumb hack (which has become an old story by now) gives me little confidence how long buggy ver 1.5 would eventually be fixed. Give this plugin a miss or keep your ver 1.4 (and fix the timthumb yourself — check the web on how to do this). Avoid.
Thanks. However, fixing timthumb manually is very easy, so I see no point in using other plugin when this one (v1.4) is working perfectly.
which one? I cand found one with the same functionality?
Finally I have done this:
Over version 1.4 install this plugin:
Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner
Run the scanner and upgrade the thimtumb.php
Edit in the plugin directory and replace version 1.4 per 1.5 (the second appearance) in the file index.php.
Done!
Salve Nando,
ho qualche problema con la personalizzazione del plugin. Questo codice andava bene fino a poco tempo fa, ma forse con l’aggiornamento è cambiato qualcosa?
.block-widget_featured-posts li img { float:left; margin:0 4px 4px 0; }
.block-widget_featured-posts li { font-size:10px; height:80px;}
Grazie mille
The new version of the plugin works perfectly.
The question of who will no longer display the thumb is due to the fact that we removed the use of timthumb script that generated the security problem and introduced the new features of WordPress to manage the thumb.
For those used to the old version, you can regenerate the thumb using the plugin “Regenerate Thumbnails“. After all regenerated thumb you will see everything working properly.
However, in a few days will release a new version that will be backward compatible with previous versions of the plugin.
In addition to solving the problem of security, the new features of wordpress for the management of thumb can greatly reduce the size of each image.
It keeps showing up only 1 article even tho I have made a couple articles as featured
I also am having the same problem as Christian with only one post showing, while I have many featured.
Same problem here, only one post showing after upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5.1…
Back to 1.4 solved the problem.
Besides this small inconvenient, thank you very much for this great plugin!
same problem with only one post displaying… please help!
We just fixed that in release 1.5.2 committed to WordPress directory.
Thank you for your patience.
WORKAROUND FOUND !!!
open the index.php and replace the function “featured_posts_YIW()” with this one:
http://pastebin.com/dZ8gajNf
for the developer:
the loop with the featured posts is missing, see line 57, 58, 59, 77 & 78 of my workaround …
Thank you Matthias! I just commited the fix in WordPress plugin directory. It was an oversight upgrading from one version to another.
Giustino – YIW
Those this plugin has a shortcode? So we can add it anywhere in the page?
Thank you and God Bless!!
We’re thinking to add one. Thank you for your suggestion.
Giustino – YIW
Hello,
i just try to run this great plugin but it is not working nothing appear
i just show a page title
http://wp4.iraqcyber.com
any kindly help please ?
thanks
Hello,
could you please download the new version in WordPress plugin directory and try again?
Thank you
I guess just by tweaking your back end code lil bit you can get that thumbnails with featured posts on your website/blog. However i will try this plugin out on my blog. Thanks for reporting
Hello,
where i can find new version ? is it here in this page Versione: 1.5?
regards
hi..I want to add a featured post slideshow on my homepage..not in my sidebars or in theme function..i want it at the place where all the post appear.I want my slideshow should contain all the images and updates i made on that day.It means i need a featured slide show + my post on one single home page
Something like http://www.searchengineland.com
hi..I want to add a featured post slideshow on my homepage..not in my sidebars or in theme function..i want it at the place where all the post appear.I want my slideshow should contain all the images and updates i made on that day.It means i need a featured slide show + my post on one single home page
Something like http://www.searchengineland.com.Plz help
Hi,
I’m having the following problem: The plugin can’t display thumbnails stored in NextGen Gallery. If the post contains a thumbnail from the media library, it is displayed correctly, but images from the gallery are not recognizes (default image shown instead).
Can you help me solve this?
Thanks,
Michael.
Hello, could you please provide a link, so that I can see the problem in action?
Thank you,
Giustino
Sure. The link is:
http://clubaleman.sei.cl. The plugin is used on the index page in the lower right corner, under “Noticias del Club”.
Thanks,
Michael.
I think you can solve this problem by inserting a featured image in your post.
This plugin checks for featured image, if it isn’t present it retrieves the first image in post’s content, and if it can’t find any image it uses the default one as fallback.
Giustino
Hmm, the posts already have featured images, only they are not stored in the media library but in the NextGen Gallery. Images in the media library work fine, it’s the ones in the Gallery that are not recognized.
Maybe I can patch the plugin somehow to make this work?
I understand. I mean you should add another featured image using WordPress default meta box as showed here. Did you do already this?
I did that now for the first of the posts. It looks strange now. Something has changed but no image is displayed.
Can you take a look?
It seems like the plugin can’t find your image’s path. What version of the plugin are you using?
It’s version 1.5.2, the current one I think.
The problem, as I mentioned, seems to be only with images from the NextGen Gallery. Other – normal – images are shown correctly.
I should investigate on this issue. I’ll try to install NextGen and test it.
Thank you so much for your time.
Let me know if you find a solution.
Hi Giustino:
Do you have any findings yet on this issue?
Thanks,
Michael.
The plugin is fantastic and works well – there’s just one minor thing…
In wordpress, I have “recropped” the thumbnail size *only* of certain images, but the plugin appears to be grabbing a thumbnail view of the main image (thus, things look cut off/cropped oddly).
Is there any way to direct the plugin to grab the Thumbnail version of the image, and not the main image?
Thanks!
Thanks for this article. I am a new blogger so this is very helpful. It’s hard to know how long it takes to make a successful blog, so “being patient” is among some of the best advice you can give. It’s easy to get discouraged when you don’t see movement, but this give me some encouragement. http://www.friv2.org
if it not a wordpress theme, how i can install or configuration on mya web?
really, it’s a nice and cool template, like it, love it
This is an incredible widget and exactly what our blog needs.
Our only problem is the text is not displaying in line with the image as it does it your pictures. It is showing on a separate line after the image. Seems others have had this trouble before but I can’t find a clear answer. The Website is http://www.thegrapplermedia.com.
Thanks for your help!
Hey,
Have any idea to highlight older post when a visitor commented on a older post?
advance thanks
Great Plugin and works well. I am using this to my client’s websites.
Thanks!
Love this widget! How do I get rid of the text under the thumbnails though?
Hi,
Your plugin is really great, and I love it, but sadly it doesn’t work properly after updating WordPress 3.5.1.
Something went wrong with the thumbnails. Hope you can help me fix the problem.
My website: http://exina-art.com/
Thanks a lot,
Exina
trying to drop by to say thank so much. I have been looking for such plugin in the wordpress plugins but they do not look good as what you have shared!
Ciao Nando,
I just installed this plugin on my website and it works. I will leave also a good feedback on WordPress plugin section. Just to confirm all the users here that it works with WP 3.5.1 too. Good Job! Saluti, Donald
Veramente un plugin molto utile e di facile utilizzo.
Dopo qualche problema iniziale dovuto ai permessi delle cartelle, che ho dovuto ripristinare, e funzionato tutto a meraviglia.
Vorrei comunque personalizzare il colore della linea che separa i vari articoli all’interno del widget.
Nel css del pulgin mi sembra di non aver trovato la riga di codice per fare questo.
Come posso modificarlo?
Grazie anticipatamente
Hope your here to answer ques. Love this plugin. I have the code you gave embedded in my theme …
‘Video Spotlight’,
‘numberposts’ => 3,
‘orderby’ => ‘DESC’,
‘widththumb’ => 53,
‘heightthumb’ => 53,
‘beforetitle’ => ”,
‘aftertitle’ => ”
);
featured_posts_YIW( $args );
?>
HOW/CAN I ALTER THIS SO THAT I ONLY SHOW SPECIFIC CATEGORIES?
THANKS
i am using your fabulous featured post widget but i want to increse the font size littel bit please can you provide the code.
A TimThumb error has occured
The following error(s) occured:
Could not create the index.html file – to fix this create an empty file named index.html file in the cache directory.
Query String : src=http://www.ichongli.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/12.jpeg&h=73&w=73&zc=1
TimThumb version : 2.8.10
help