A Novel Weblog Characteristic - Featured Post
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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Last week, Blogger Engineering announced their latest feature, "Featured Post".
This is a quick in addition to slowly agency to highlight a specific post service inward your blog, that volition live on enjoyable or useful for your readers. I promise to purpose mine to render useful advice, equally "Read, in addition to Learn" - in ane trial the Followers gadget has been updated, in addition to is fully operational.
The Featured Post gadget is non at all difficult, to add together to the blog.
It's correct there, at the transcend of the primary "Add a Gadget" list.
Start amongst "Add a Gadget".
You accept options to exhibit the post service title, in addition to the origin ikon inward the post. And, you lot tin alter the gadget title.
Choose a post service from a post service list. It's similar to the dashboard Posts page, amongst label search ability.
And I changed the gadget title, to "Read, in addition to Learn".
Right now, it is "An Important Update".
With my "An Important Update" gadget positioned higher upward the posts, I hitting "Save arrangement", refreshed my abode page, in addition to in that place it is.
One interesting detail, that nosotros should note. The characteristic is a "Featured Post" - in addition to it appears higher upward private post service pages, in addition to higher upward archive, label, primary index pages (look up, in addition to see for yourself), in addition to static pages. Look at the bottom of my Topics index, for instance.
The championship is "Featured Post". You tin accept ane gadget per weblog - in addition to each gadget volition characteristic ane post. This focuses attending on ane post. Note that you lot cannot create "Featured Page" - static pages are non supported.
You tin exclusively add together this characteristic once. It's called "Featured Post" for a reason.
Note also that you lot tin select the "Featured Post" using a posts listing - either all weblog posts (with "All Labels" selected), or posts bearing a specific label (with a specific label selected).
I mean value that around mightiness to direct teaser content would live on a useful add-on to the gadget. Since we're going to manually direct a featured post, manually editing the teaser would non live on equally good onerous an addition. Other than that, what's non to like?
Whether you’d similar to re-share that delicious vacation recipe from a few years back, spotlight a can’t-miss advertisement you’re running, or but revive something quirky from the archives, the Featured Post gadget is a elementary agency to exhibit off the content that matters most.
This is a quick in addition to slowly agency to highlight a specific post service inward your blog, that volition live on enjoyable or useful for your readers. I promise to purpose mine to render useful advice, equally "Read, in addition to Learn" - in ane trial the Followers gadget has been updated, in addition to is fully operational.
The Featured Post gadget is non at all difficult, to add together to the blog.
It's correct there, at the transcend of the primary "Add a Gadget" list.
You accept options to exhibit the post service title, in addition to the origin ikon inward the post. And, you lot tin alter the gadget title.
And I changed the gadget title, to "Read, in addition to Learn".
Right now, it is "An Important Update".
One interesting detail, that nosotros should note. The characteristic is a "Featured Post" - in addition to it appears higher upward private post service pages, in addition to higher upward archive, label, primary index pages (look up, in addition to see for yourself), in addition to static pages. Look at the bottom of my Topics index, for instance.
The championship is "Featured Post". You tin accept ane gadget per weblog - in addition to each gadget volition characteristic ane post. This focuses attending on ane post. Note that you lot cannot create "Featured Page" - static pages are non supported.
Note also that you lot tin select the "Featured Post" using a posts listing - either all weblog posts (with "All Labels" selected), or posts bearing a specific label (with a specific label selected).
I mean value that around mightiness to direct teaser content would live on a useful add-on to the gadget. Since we're going to manually direct a featured post, manually editing the teaser would non live on equally good onerous an addition. Other than that, what's non to like?