A Novel Weblog Characteristic - Featured Post
Tuesday, October 22, 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 last enjoyable or useful for your readers. I promise to role mine to render useful advice, every bit "Read, in addition to Learn" - ane time 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 alongside "Add a Gadget".
You convey options to demo the post service title, in addition to the get-go 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, alongside 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 upwardly the posts, I hitting "Save arrangement", refreshed my dwelling page, in addition to at that spot it is.
One interesting detail, that nosotros should note. The characteristic is a "Featured Post" - in addition to it appears higher upwardly private post service pages, in addition to higher upwardly 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 convey 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 entirely 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 intend that about might to select teaser content would last a useful improver to the gadget. Since we're going to manually select a featured post, manually editing the teaser would non last also 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 simply revive something quirky from the archives, the Featured Post gadget is a uncomplicated agency to demo 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 last enjoyable or useful for your readers. I promise to role mine to render useful advice, every bit "Read, in addition to Learn" - ane time 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 convey options to demo the post service title, in addition to the get-go 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 upwardly private post service pages, in addition to higher upwardly 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 convey 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 intend that about might to select teaser content would last a useful improver to the gadget. Since we're going to manually select a featured post, manually editing the teaser would non last also onerous an addition. Other than that, what's non to like?