• Hello,

    I am currently using trying to use the “Featured Post” plugin. I am fairly new when it comes to coding in WordPress, and I was wondering if someone could give me a few pointers on this.

    On the one hand, I am wondering the EXACT code to just call this plugin. The whole thing, all the way from the <?php function(); ?> to the end of the code.

    The other thing I was wondering, I am also using the “Advanced Excerpt” Plugin. The issue with this, is it changes the size of ALL of my excerpts. I have 2 seperate excerpts on the static page of my blog. I want one to be a 50-60 word count excerpt, and the other to be a 20-30 word count. People to do it this way would be a lot better than using the featured post for my needs.

    Thanks very much WordPress.Org.

    – Brett

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  • For point one, I’m assuming you mean: call this plugin so that it is displayed on the website?

    If this is the case, then the author provides quite a few examples:
    http://www.mydollarplan.com/random-featured-post-plugin/

    Speak n00b to me here mosey. I activate the plugin and set the category stuff up then stick `if ( function_exists(‘show_featured_post’) )
    if (is_home() && !is_paged())
    show_featured_post(‘<span class=”container”>’,'</div>’);`
    at the top of my index.php but nothing happens.

    Alright, I was being a little facetious to highlight the point that some of us only know enough to get into trouble 🙂

    Turns out I was having problems when “Display excerpt.” was checked.
    So Konziner, if you’re still completely lost, I stuck

    <?php if ( function_exists('show_featured_post') )
     show_featured_post('', '', true, 3320);?>

    just before where the posts are called in the template; i.e. <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

    btw, ‘3320’ is the ID of the category I want featured posts from.

    Glad it worked out for you, pusbucket 🙂

    If it’s any help, the code should just go where you would like the content to be displayed rather than at the top of the page.

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