How to add featured content slider into wordpress blog
Featured contents are the beneficial example of showcasing the best posts of the blogs. This is the another way of getting more traffic from buried posts of the blog. Now a days most of the popular blogs including Digital Inspiration,Time, MSN, and Walmart used featured post to engage more audience into the conversation and content. There are many ways to display featured contents in the websites,few of them are describes as follows:
- FeaturedContentGallery based on Mootools framework which have an automated and customizable rotating image gallery for the wordpress blogs. You can post the featured contents any where in your blog template by simply calling the php codes.
<?php include
(ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php');
?>
Note:It required Custom Fields for inserting desired images in the pages and posts like “articleimg “ “thumbnailimg”.You can select your craved images and exhibit categories, pages or posts with tradition overlay text and a thumbnail whirligig.
The installation of this plugin is quite easy and for more details check out installation steps.
- Featurific For WordPress is an effortless wordpress plugin for the featured slideshow of the posts.The basic plugin is free and i also have a pro version.
- In case you want to display the specific post of the single categories then you may try Featured Category.
Note:Unadulterated for displaying the important categories, recent news, projects, and featured posts in the blog. - Best Foot Forward provides an easy way to automatically create a featured post list by utilizing the WordPress tagging system.
- Random Featured Post plugin allows you to display a random post from a designated category.
I used the FeaturedContentGallery and its quite easy to make any customizable plugin based on the jquery. The original concept is the MooTools JavaScript framework used by SmoothGallery from JonDesign. Moreover i also implement the SmoothGallery on headers of the mediaredefined website.
Note: Plugins based on Mootools frameworks often creates problems while working with Jquery. You should check how to resolve JQuery, Prototype, and lightbox issues to make them work on same page.
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June 29th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that
July 11th, 2009 at 3:58 am
Nice post, but it should be noted that the “FeaturedContentGallery” plugin is not based in the jQuery framework but in the Mootols framework.
It is worth noting because WordPress is geared (mostly) towards jQuery and most plugins created for WP use jQuery, so to have both frameworks at the same time is overkill, furthermore, the FCG plugin conflicts with many other jQ plugins.
Use it only if you don’t use any jQuery in your WordPress site or if you use plugins that use Mootools.
Cheers,
Roderick.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:04 am
Any good alternatives then?
Best,
Alex
August 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Hi i must agree with Roderick.
The Featured Content Gallery is from a russian company nad it is not compatible with other plugins. E.g. Light Box, Collapsed Categories, etc.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Smooth Slider is another content slider where you can have thumbnail image, Post Title, Excerpt,custom content or content part etc. It is a search engine optimized plugin which is lighter in weight but looks very professional on a blog.
Its is a free wordpress plugin, for demo, look at my home page “Internet Techies”.
Anyways, Nice info provided here bu Honey Singh and of course featured posts slider increases google indexing as well as clickthru on some of the best contents from blog.
.-= Sanjeev´s last blog ..Smooth Slider: Simple, Customizable And Search Engine Optimized Featured Posts Slideshow Plugin For WordPress =-.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
@Roderick
Thanks for your feedback on Jquery and Mootools. I edited the post with the essence of your comments.
Secondly, i also updated how to fix mootools based plugins with Jquery.
@Indy
I posted the resolution of the issue i.e how to resolve JQuery, Prototype, and lightbox issues to make them work on same page.
@Sanjeev
Thanks for suggesting Smooth Slider.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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January 26th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Thanks for sharing this information
It will surely help to attract readers in thesis themes..
February 8th, 2010 at 2:36 am
Thanks for the post. I am currently trying to configure the Featured Content Gallery plugin, it is a bit difficult but I will get through it. I am trying to get it to show up on only one page, not all of them.
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February 8th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
@Curt N
Good luck for your integrations.
Feel free to bother us for any problems or suggestions !
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:52 pm
jquery slider menu does not work with mootool FCG
hello,
I’m new with wordpress and i have been doing some personal projects to improve my experience with it. I added a plugin Featured COntent Gallery from ieplexus to add some effects on my website. The current theme that i am using has jquery and slider tab javascripts. I found out that featured content gallery uses Mootool and has some compatibility issues with jquery hence my Featured content gallery does not work. Found a solution though which is to use a code jquery.noConflict() to solve the problem. But when i insert the code at the last line of my jquery script as what i had read about and got the Featured Content Gallery to work, the slider menus now do not work (it is supposed to expand when i do a mouseover)…But when i take out the jquery.noConflict() function in my jquery script, the Featured COntent Gallery does not work and the slider this time works. Can u please take a look at my site to see what is happening? Still a newbie at this but im doing my best to learn. (http://wp.jonasandbelle.com)
March 17th, 2010 at 7:30 am
who da leet haxor lol
March 28th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Hi,
Great post with a lot of useful information. I have been working on a few implementations for this feature and nto too long ago put up a tutorial on how to create a professional featured post slider using jCarousel that is very efficient, flexible and most importantly fully compatible with jQuery. If you want to take a look here is a link WordPress Featured Post Slider
.-= Jesse´s last blog ..Free Tool: Dominate Google and Your Competitors =-.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:54 am
@Jesse
Thanks for suggesting jCarousel !
June 10th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
nice plug in…….
i will give it a try …….
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October 9th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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October 29th, 2010 at 8:21 am
I’m still having a lot of trouble getting my featured content window to work. I will try one more time.
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February 21st, 2011 at 12:17 am
im looking for a slide that allows video like youtube embeded code. Please help
Thanks