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Feature A Page Widget aims to provide a “just works” solution for showcasing a Page in any sidebar. It features:
- Core WordPress features. Nothing crazy.
- A simple set of options with a thought-through UI.
- Three widget layouts.
- Filters and templating for powerful customizations.
- i18n ready.
For those more technically adept, there are three filters and a template to customize the output of the widget.
Download the Plugin on WordPress.org
Screenshots
How to Use the Widget
This plugin enables Featured Images (technically, Post Thumbnails) and Excerpts for Pages in WordPress. If you don’t see one or both of those fields, they may be hidden in the “Screen Options” (look in top-right corner) for Pages.
- Edit the page you will feature.
- Fill out the excerpt and select a featured image on that page.
- Go to Appearance > Widgets.
- Add an instance of the “Feature a Page Widget” to the sidebar that will feature the page.
- Select the page you just edited. Choose a layout to use and give the Widget a title if you want.
- Save the widget. Admire your handiwork.
A much longer FAQ is available in the plugin’s readme file.
OK this is actually a really useful plugin! Thanks a lot for your contributions to the WordPress community :)
I’m glad you like it @Lars! If you’d like to support the plugin a bit, consider leaving a rating & review on WordPress.org.
Good plugin…i wish, added, was a feature of READ MORE.
@vandanam108. Feel free to vote in the poll on this page to register your desires! It’s one of the more-requested features, so getting your thoughts into the poll helps me know what features to add in the future.
In the mean time, see the plugin’s FAQ for a function you can use to get a read more link. (It happens to be broken in the current version of the plugin, but it will be fixed in the next day or two.)
Hi Mark,
It would be nice if you could include it in the widget. I hv polled for it. Since i am not so technically sound to do what you say in the FAQ, i fear i cud mess it up.
Once again thanks for the widget. It is really good.
Nice plugin, thanks for this.. can you pls tell me how to put this widget at the center. see here http://www.tarasulnet.com, on the right side at the lowest part of the widget area… thanks in advance
I’m glad you like the plugin @albarpas. Unfortunately, I can’t help you much with your question. Your site’s theme controls where you can place widgets and the display of a widget in a sidebar is highly-dependent on the theme’s CSS rules.
It’s close to what I need … would like to discuss an idea with you about creating a similar plugin. Might be able to use this as a start. Please contact me at the email provided and I will explain further.
Thanks,
Kevin
Amazing plugin! I wonder what is the “fix” if you follow a path where: you have a theme; you want to edit its home page layout by adding a place where to display a featured article; a space between the slidershows and the widget area like in this hompage: http://i.imgur.com/bqa4HWI.png
Thank you a lot.
Hello and thanks for using the plugin. If you really want to share your love for it, give it a review on the Plugin Repository: http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/feature-a-page-widget
Regarding your question, that is an issue you’ll need to take up with the theme developer. It sounds like you want to add an additional Widget Area (aka Sidebar) to the home page so you can use this plugin. That will require modifying the theme which you should always try to do with a child theme.
Great plugin. Do you know why the ‘share this’ links show on every widget apart from on the homepage? http://lostvoiceguy.com/gigs/
I’ve tried turning the ‘share this’ option off on the individual pages. Thanks
Glad you like the plugin! One great way to support the plugin is with a review.
I’m happy to take a look at the problem you’re seeing (early in the new year). Please start a new thread in the Support Forum and include how you’re adding the “share this” buttons (plugin, custom code, etc.).
Hi, i think this plugin is very useful, it’s the best i’ve tried. I do have one question. I select my featured image on the page i want to be featured, and it does show nicely on thumbnail however when i click on the link, it takes me to the full page, but it shows the featured image in a HUGE size most of the times it looks distorted and blury. Is there a way that I can only show the featured image as thumbnail only, but not show on the actual page at all? Thanks
Glad you like the plugin, @napoloso! It sounds from what you describe that this is an issue with how your theme displays featured images. The blurriness in particular sounds like the theme may even be expanding the images beyond their uploaded size which certainly isn’t great.
Since this is a theme issue, there’s not much I can do. See if you can add some CSS to hide the image in those instances, or use a child theme to remove the featured image from displaying where you don’t want it.