It’s always the way isn’t it, finally give in and ask the forum after hours or fiddling and then discover the solution on your own!
The Morning After theme differs slightly for WordPress.com and .org it seems – I had made several posts “sticky” which on WordPress.com stuck them to the featured post category, but on wordpress.org stuck them to the latest posts category.
Hope this helps anyone else as bemused as me! 🙂
I know this has kind of been “resolved” as far as the OP is concerned, but I’m having the same issue and I don’t want to solve it the way she did – since the solution she came up with seems to make the “Featured Posts” section completely useless.
I also have an addition to the issue – regardless of how many ‘sticky’ posts you have marked, only the most recent two will show up in the Featured Post section and the third actually ends up being the most recent post – exactly what SHOULD be in the “Latest Post” section, but isn’t!
And just to be pre-emptive, yes, I know this is a “commercial” theme, but it is a free theme that is only supported by WooThemes if you pay $70 – if this were a “commercial” site I might even consider it, but not for a personal/educational site with this being the only issue I haven’t been able to solve.
I’d appreciate anyone who can help. Thanks.
All right, finally figured it out on my own as well. To add to sammylouise’s solution:
Sticky = bad!
The instructions make it seem like you should be using “Sticky” to make a post a featured post – absolutely not so.
In order to make a post show up in the “Featured Post” section, you actually have to choose a category (or create one, as I did – I called it “Featured” since I’m so very original) that will ALWAYS show in the “Featured Post” section and will be the ONLY category to show there. This option can be found in the Morning After section in the Dashboard under Theme Options -> Homepage. I had seen it there but didn’t have a particular category I wanted appearing as a featured post, so I hadn’t used it. I had a brain wave and thought maybe it would work if I simply created a category that I could use purely for the section – and it worked beautifully.
I really hope this helps someone else out, I’ve spent the last week coming back to it from time to time and cursing a blue streak at my screen. I even started delving into home.php to see if I could decipher the code enough to tweak it – which is where I noticed the reference to a featured category being used. Good luck to anyone else with this problem!
Thanks for this, I’ve since switched over to a paid theme (natch) but I had many hours of frustration with this one!
As you are/were using a commercially supported theme (The Morning After by Woothemes), you need to seek support from the theme’s developers – paid or otherwise. We only support themes downloaded from wordpress.org here.
