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Favorites Posts

Plugin adds a widget that allows to display anounces of posts in a blocks in the sidebar. Supports thumbnails, custom fields, your own styles.

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Tested up to WordPress 3.4
Current version1.5
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 3.4
Minimum stackWP 2.0.2 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update4 Jul 201214y ago
Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Favorites Posts version 1.5 as active, updated 14y ago and tested up to WordPress 3.4.

Overview

About this plugin

Plugin adds a widget that allows to display anounces of selected posts in a special blocks in the sidebar. Supports the display of thumbnails, custom fields, your own styles. Styles may be configured through a separate CSS file.

Widget options:

  • Category ID (the desired category ID)
  • Number of anounces (number of displaying anounces)
  • Number of chars (number of chars in one anounce)
  • With custom field (only for anounces with custom fields)
  • Special style
  • Show category (displaying or not the name of category)
  • Show thumbnail

To insert thumbnail in a block with the announcement,

just add the appropriate post field ‘favpostimg’ (lowercase, without quotes)

and set full path (URL) to image.

If you want display only favorites posts that you want,

then add in the appropriate post any custom field with any value

(value of custom field must be not empty) and set this field in widget options.

In this case categories do not matter.

Add to sidebar so many widgets as you like and displaying through each

widget only selected posts with appropriate custom fields.

If nothing set in widget options, then default settings is category 1,

number of anounces 3, number of chars in each anounce 300.

css’.

List of css classes that you can change:

  • cat-design – style displaying of category
  • cat-nodesign – displaying category without special style
  • fav-title – style titles of posts
  • favblok-design – style displaying of anounce
  • favblok-nodesign – style displaying without special style
  • favimg – style displaying thumbnails in anounces
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • anounce
  • favorite
  • post
  • widget
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 3.4

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 3.4.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to3.4
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.0.2 · PHP not listed
Update activity4 Jul 201214y ago

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