Comments on: Wordpress 2.7.1+ featured articles plugin

By: I. Love. WordPress. | Eric D. Brown

I. Love. WordPress. | Eric D. Brown — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:02:31 +0000

[...] (affiliate link) which I’ve customized to meet my needs. I added a customized version of the WP Featured Articles Slider to the front page to highlight previous [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:14:08 +0000

That would be excellent! Does the plugin currently work from within widgets? I’d check now, but am not at a computer where I can do that now and won’t be for a little while.

thanks very much – this is a great piece of work.

By: Constantin Boiangiu

Constantin Boiangiu — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:40:53 +0000

Glad you like it. Unfortunately, none of the 2 are possible without messing with the code. But they both seem to be good ideas so I’ll do an update to the script to include your suggestions. I’ll probably be done with it sometime next week, hope it’s OK.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:22:30 +0000

This looks great! 2 questions though:
1) Can it be made to display pages instead of posts? Some sites make heavy use of pages vs posts (including mine)
2) Is there a way to completely disable the information from showing when the mouse hovers over the slider?

By: yasamphani

yasamphani — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:27:01 +0000

awesome…!!!

By: Constantin Boiangiu

Constantin Boiangiu — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:58:25 +0000

On line 171, inside function truncate_text, after this line ( $string = strip_tags($string); ) add this one:

$string = preg_replace( ‘|\[(.+?)\](.+?\[/\\1\])?|s’, ”, $string );

Let me know if it works.

By: Davide

Davide — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:04:37 +0000

How to exclude caption from exerpt (etc. http://www.davidemuci.it)?

By: Constantin Boiangiu

Constantin Boiangiu — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:37:10 +0000

Happy to hear you like it and use it. Hope you enjoy it for a very long time.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:02:42 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH for slimming this plugin down – my site is loading so much faster now! Yours was already one of the faster-loading plugins of this type, but now it completely leaves all the others in the dust.

By: Constantin Boiangiu

Constantin Boiangiu — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:59:22 +0000

Have you tried using the settings from wp-admin->Settings->Featured articles? From there you should be able to force the slider to appear only on certain pages/categories.