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Extended Featured Widget

Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress plugin that helps you can organize your post/page content beautifully.

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Tested up to WordPress 4.2
Current version0.3
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 4.2
Minimum stackWP 3.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update28 Oct 201511y ago
Active installations80Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Extended Featured Widget version 0.3 as active, updated 11y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.2.

Overview

About this plugin

The Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress widget. You can decide, whether or not the post thumbnail is displayed,

whether the post title, post info, meta, content etc are above or beneath the thumbnail and a couple of more things. And of course, you can style

the widget individually. You can filter the content by category, post tags, taxonomy. Also you can include/exclude specific terms or

post/page specific items by ID(s). And many more features are integrated in this plugin.

Widget Features:

  • Supporting Post, page
  • Supporting Filter by Category, Tag
  • Include/Exclude categories/tags by ID field
  • Include/Exclude post/page items by ID field
  • Turn on or Off Post title, thumbnail, post info, content etc
  • Order by Date, ID, comment count, random
  • Supporting offset field
  • 4 Type Content option
  • Full Content
  • Excerpt
  • Content by Character Limit
  • No Content
  • Multiple Hooks and Filters for adding additional content
  • Select featured image size from drop down
  • Select Image alignment and Image position

Shortcodes Syntax for Post Info & Meta

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Post Date

[post_date after=”” before=”” label=”” format=”DATE FORMAT”]

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Post Time

[post_time after=”” before=”” label=”” format=”TIME FORMAT”]

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Post Author Name

[post_author after=”” before=””]

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Post Author Name with Author Site link

[post_author_link after=”” before=””]

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Post Author Name with Author Archive link

[post_author_posts_link after=”” before=””]

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Post Comments Number

[post_comments after=”” before=”” more=’% Comments’ one=’1 Comment’ zero=’Leave a Comment’]

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Post Tags

[post_tags after=”” before=”Tagged With” sep=’, ‘]

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Post Categories

[post_categories after=”” before=”Filed In” sep=’, ‘]

How it is working

Here is the some examples:

  • 3 Columns Grid Style
  • Featured Content on Home Page
  • Custom Post Type Demo

This plugin is using lot of hooks and filters. Here is the list of those Hooks & Filters

Hooks

  • efwp_before_loop
  • efwp_before_featured_post_content
  • efwp_featured_post_content
  • efwp_after_featured_post_content
  • efwp_inside_loop
  • efwp_after_loop

Filters

  • post_content_limit_allowedtags
  • get_the_efwp_post_content_limit
  • the_efwp_post_content_limit
  • efwp_do_post_meta
  • efwp_do_post_info
  • efwp_post_date_shortcode
  • efwp_post_time_shortcode
  • efwp_post_author_shortcode
  • efwp_post_author_link_shortcode
  • efwp_post_author_posts_link_shortcode
  • efwp_post_comments_shortcode
  • efwp_post_tags_shortcode
  • efwp_post_categories_shortcode

PRO Version have following features:

  • Supporting Post, page, custom post type
  • Supporting Taxonomies
  • Added Stylesheet
  • Supporting Grid Style
  • Pagination for Post Listings

Any suggestion highly appreciable.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • featured post
  • featured post content
  • category
  • page
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 4.2

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.2.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity28 Oct 201511y ago

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