Featured Video Plus vs Genesis Featured Page Advanced

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.

Genesis Featured Page Advanced is nearing the end of its life. The plugin was built to solve a problem that will soon no longer exist. The advent of block themes utilizing the Site Editor has made traditional widgets irrelevant. Critical support will still be provided in the support forum, but the plugin is no longer being actively developed. An advanced version of the Genesis – Featured Page widget, this plugin allows you to add a custom image, custom content, page excerpt, and more. Genesis Featured Page Advanced is only for Genesis Framework users. Genesis is a premium product of StudioPress, which has no affiliation with this plugin. Plugin highlights Add a Custom Page Title Display widget title above or below image (Defaults above) Display page title above or below image (Defaults below) Adds option for widget to link to a custom link Adds custom image upload field Adds option to adjust the size of custom images Adds custom content field, which accepts shortcodes Adds option to display the page excerpt Adds option to remove the page link from the page title Adds option to add the page link to the widget title Adds option to remove the page link from the featured or custom image Adds option to insert the Learn More link on a new line Set the target and rel attributes on all links Fields show/hide based on user selection for cleaner UI Works alongside the original Genesis – Featured Page widget and other third party widgets Uses the same CSS classes as the original Genesis widget, so any styling you are currently using will be passed to this widget Genesis 2.0 and HTML5 compatible If you are looking for additional features, let me know in the plugin support forum. Disclaimer: This plugin is essentially a forked version of the original Genesis – Featured Page widget. Props go to StudioPress for developing the widget. I just modified/enhanced it.