Custom Post Type as Featured content

Resolved this by way of a 3rd party plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-tools/ – it simply re-maps the custom taxonomies to post_tag.

I’m actually working this option in to the Fourteen Extended plugin and it will be available soon for all Twenty Fourteen users.

The basics are…

1: Enable tags for pages via a function – something like

if( ! function_exists('fourteenxt_register_taxonomy') ){

    function fourteenxt_register_taxonomy() {
        register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tag', 'page');
    }
    add_action('admin_init', 'fourteenxt_register_taxonomy');
}

Then I set up options in the Customizer to set the number of posts, the content type i.e posts, pages or custom post type via $post_types = get_post_types(); – the values are then passed to a twentyfourteen_get_featured_posts filter via a function callback.

2: The rest of the code is a bit long and involved to paste here – you can grab the Beta version of the plugin here: Fourteen Extended Beta and have a look at the code. You can either use the plugin or pull out what you need and use it 🙂

If you are going to incorporate the code in to a child theme then take a look at how I’ve done it in Ridizain: http://wordpress.org/themes/ridizain/developers/ – you’ll want to grab the version 1.0.19 for the code.

3: Most custom post types don’t use the standard WordPress post_tag for their taxonomies – this is where the Taxonomy Tools plugin comes in handy.

Once everything is set up you’ll be able to use pages or custom post types as featured content.

EDIT: Not sure if its permissible to post the zip link in the thread – if Mods object please remove it 🙂