For our newspaper website, we want to be able to feature posts on the homepage. Right now the default shows the most recent posts. Is there a way to select what stories are posted on the homepage?
Similarly, we want this same functionality for the different category pages.
It’s important that we control what gets featured as one of the main 6 images on either section.
Lastly, how do we prevent the featured stories from showing up right underneath the featured area? Is there a way to not show featured posts in the next block of stories? See image example:
Select stories individually, not just by latest, category, comments, views, etc.
Hi,
You can set a block to display articles from a specific category or by multiple categories(using category id) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-tutorial/ Also the theme has an option to enable unique articles or offset features on the page(the guide is from old documentation, but it works the same) – https://forum.tagdiv.com/unique-articles-and-offset-newspaper/
If you refer exclusively to the featured posts you can set the sort order to Featured so you can display only the featured posts from a specific category, for example – http://screencast.com/t/FJP3Ja6h3 – http://screencast.com/t/Ib9wY3Wh – http://screencast.com/t/jCbanTqV
The theme doesn’t have an option to display an article on a specific spot from block, if this what you mean.
Thanks!
This helps.
If the the content block only has 5 spots for posts and I feature 6 stories (sorted by date), does the 6th one bump the 1st one out of being featured? Or, do I have to manually un-feature one in order to get the 5 that I want to show up in the content block on the homepage.
Thanks.
Hi,
If you use the sort order featured is just like you’ve set featured category on block. The Big Grid block has only 5 spots so it doesn’t matter how many articles you have tagged featured, there will be displayed just the latest 5 featured articles. So when you add new featured post, it will be always added to the first spot of the Big Grid.
If you want a different sort order you could create a category to use it only to filter posts on Big Grid and you can change the sort order(alphabetical, popular..).
Another solution to control(how much is possible) the articles for Big Grid is to filter by tag, just add a tag for those specific posts and use option “Filter by tag” – http://screencast.com/t/jWJope3wf8 – http://screencast.com/t/KiFQDQav
Hope this helps!
Our site is live at eCoronado.com. We are able to display featured content on the homepage. Here is my question. The default always shows the most recently published featured post as the main large image. I was hoping that I could just adjust the time/date of an older post in order to make that the featured story. However, by changing the date, it changes the permalink URL.
What is the best way to make a featured post the main large image if it is not the most recently posted?
I need the ability to easily change the order of featured posts that have been published.
Thanks.
Hi,
Bogdan replied here regarding the permalink – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/permalink-date/
In addition we will add an option to control the articles on blocks(including Big Grid) in a future update(we hope in the next theme update).
Thanks!
