Easy-to-manage featured content for highlighting posts

[lancewillett]

Add new functionality to give authors a consistent way to spotlight certain posts on their home page so they can be uniquely displayed by a theme. When switching themes, the featured content will not be lost.

This is slated for 3.8. Development will occur in a plugin first.

[markoheijnen]

You know we have sticky posts ;) is this going to be working together or is it a replacement?

[lancewillett]

Plugin is here: ​http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-featured-content/

[valeriosza]

Thank you for accepting the idea that I gave.

Well, I'm developing a plugin, along with another member of the Brazilian community. Once ready, send it to be analyzed, as was thought.

Replying to lancewillett:

[valeriosza]

Actually can be seen via git.
​https://github.com/wpbrasil/caesar-content-manager

[swissspidy]

Are we supposed to file plugin-specific tickets on plugins.trac.wordpress.org or should we do this here? I can't select the plugin as a component there, though.

Because IMO we should remove the dependency on a specific post tag ("featured") and use post metadata instead.

[helen]

Replying to swissspidy:

Because IMO we should remove the dependency on a specific post tag ("featured") and use post metadata instead.

​http://www.taylorlovett.com/web-development/taxonomy-vs-post-meta-queries/

[swissspidy]

Replying to helen:

​http://www.taylorlovett.com/web-development/taxonomy-vs-post-meta-queries/

Thanks for the link! Already read the post back in May but must have forgotten about it ;-)

My initial thought was:
How can we use a custom term without having the user to change it? I'm sure a lot of sites already use a featured tag and an extra option for this would be too much.

Possibilities:

• wp-featured as term name and always hide it in public (only the 'Number of posts' option left)
• Use a custom featured_content taxonomy which would allow for different featured content areas or
• name it wp_internal so it could be used by other components

Just thinking out loud... What are your thoughts?

[obenland]

Featured Content

Proposed Lead: wonderboymusic

People (currently) involved:
wonderboymusic, tmoorewp, obenland, taylorde, DrewAPicture, carldanley, mfields, jayjdk, jcastaneda, swissspidy, melchoyce, karmatosed, sabreuse, rdall, mt_Suzette

Terms:

Area: A location in a theme where featured content displays. Areas are defined by and stored in the theme. Areas may appear in multiple locations.
Post: This includes Posts and Pages. Support for custom post types may be provided by filter. Posts may appear in multiple areas simultaneously.
Collection: A group of posts. Ideally defined implicitly by dropping posts in an area.

Outline

We will need to create a UI that gives publishers the following abilities:

• Add/Remove posts to/from area.
• Move a post from one area to another.
• Define a custom title, excerpt, and featured image for a post.
• Manage collections.
• Move a collection from one area to another.

We possibly need to create a metabox in the edit post/page screen so that publishers can:

• Add the post to an area(s).
• Remove the posts from an area(s).
• Define a custom title, excerpt, and featured image for a post.

And of course an API :)

• Register an area or areas
• Get featured posts for an area

General requirements:

• Collections and their assigned posts have to be portable between themes, and ex-/importable.

Features for a v2:

• Scheduling collections
• Area-agnostic custom title, excerpt. and featured image
• Hierarchical areas

[ubernaut]

here (just attached) is the very rough/basic mockup for the menu ui based idea i was talking about earlier today.

[ubernaut]

just added a revised version of the menu style thing.

[SergeyBiryukov]

​http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/11/12/featured-content-epilogue/