Featured Video Plus vs Feature A Page Widget

Feature A Page Widget provides a “just works” solution for showcasing a Page, Post, or custom post type in any widget area (aka sidebar). It leverages core WordPress features, a simple set of options, and a sleek UI for selecting one of three widget layouts. How to Use the Widget Install and activate the plugin. Edit the page you want to feature. Fill out the Excerpt and select a Featured Image on that page. Go to Appearance > Widgets or Customize > Widgets. Add an instance of the “Feature a Page Widget” to the widget area (Sidebar, Footer, etc.) of your choosing. Select the page, choose a layout, and optionally give the widget a title. Save the widget! Admire your handiwork. This plugin enables Featured Images (aka “Post Thumbnails”) and Excerpts for Pages and Posts (by default) with the ability to support custom post types. If you don’t see one or both of those fields, they may be hidden in the “Screen Options” (top-right corner) while editing a Page or Post. Important Note: Image Sizes This plugin creates multiple custom image sizes. If you use images that were uploaded to the media library before you installed this plugin, you may need to use a plugin like Regenerate Thumbnails to create the correctly-sized images. Customizing the Widget There are multiple ways to modify the widget based on your needs: Prewritten CSS selectors in /css/fpw_starter_styles.css to help you get started with custom CSS styles in a child theme or the Custom CSS Customizer field Three default overridable templates and the ability to create custom templates Eight filters to modify most parts of the widget output (Title, Read More, Image sizes, etc.) Interested in commissioning a custom layout just for your site? Get in touch. See the FAQs for links to code snippets with inline documentation. Like the Plugin? We love 5-star ratings! Donations accepted Available Languages Please help translate Feature A Page Widget. Users have contributed translations in the following languages: English (default), German (de_DE), Serbian (sr_RS), Polish (pl_PL), Spanish (es_ES), Italian (it_IT), Dutch (nl_NL) Other Plugins by @MRWweb MRW Web Design Simple TinyMCE – Get rid of bad and obscure TinyMCE buttons. Move the rest to a single top row. Comes with a bit of help for adding custom CSS classes too. Post Status Menu Items – Adds post status links–e.g. “Draft” (7)–to post type admin menus. Post Type Archive Description – Enables an editable description for a post type to display at the top of the post type archive page. Hawaiian Characters – Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Character Map for Hawaiian

A picture is worth a thousand words. How many words is a video worth? Featured Videos work like Featured Images, just smoother: Paste a video URL into the designated new box on the post edit screen and the video will be displayed in place of a post image. There are three ways to get the videos onto your page: Automagically! If your theme makes use of WordPress’ native featured image functionality you are set: Automatic insertion, lazy loading or lightbox overlays, its your choice. If this does not work you can either insert the [featured-video-plus]–Shortcode in your posts or manually make use of the PHP-functions in your theme’s source files. For more details, check the installation page. Theme compatibility Sadly many themes do not follow the WordPress standards and implement their own fancy functions for displaying featured images – those very likely break this plugin. Check out the FAQ. Another common problem are sliders: Videos, in general, do not like sliders at all. See the plugin in action on yrnxt.com. There is a button in the sidebar to switch between the different featured video display modes: Automatic, lazy and overlay. Besides Local Videos you can use videos from a whole lot of external providers like YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. SoundCloud and Spotify (including playlists) are supported as well. Check the WordPress Codex for a complete list. If some provider is not listed you can always just use an embed code or whatever HTML you like. After installing the plugin check your site’s Media Settings (Settings -> Media in the administration interface): The plugin adds quite some little helper options there. Change to lazy or overlay mode, tweak video sizing, individualize the look of the most prominent providers’ video players and turn on autoplay or video looping. By default videos try to dynamically fit their parent containers width and adjust their size responsively. Support I do read all support questions in the forums but cannot reply to all of them. The plugin is an unpaid side project and full support would require more time than I can invest for free for over 20k active installs. If you really need help, consider buying me a cookie – best way to attract my attention and to support future enhancements.