Plugin with multi-widget functionality that displays most recent posts from specific tag or tags (set with user options). Also includes user options to display: Tag Description; Author and meta details; comment totals; post categories; post tags; and either full post, excerpt, or your choice of the amount of words (or any combination).
Recent Changelog:
== Changelog ==
= 1.6.2 =
* Total Posts to Display can now exceed the posts_per_page option value.
* matched version number to BNS Featured Category - future versions should also stay in step
= 1.6 =
* corrected issue with checkboxes not displaying their state correctly
* minor correction to variable structure to allow for multiple instances of the plugin with independent post counts
* added option to display the description for the (first) tag choice as taken directly from the Tags panel under Posts in the Dashboard
* wrapped Tag Description in its own class: 'bnsfc-tag-desc'
= 1.5 =
* added option to set the quantity of the first words of the post to display instead of the default excerpt.
* modified description to reflect new functionality
* slightly increased the size of option panel to better display controls
= 1.4 =
* added version control compared against $wp_version
* added horizontal rule to option panel for clarity
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Even less custom template work with that plugin. I like what you do 🙂
Love this plugin and great ideas to use tags. this is fantastic. But… I want to style it – make it really stand out. I don’t understand the info above on styling the plugin output.
What do I need to add to my css to change the style – of the title in particular. (I’m ok with making changes in css provided I know how to identify the right element. Sorry – I know my terminology is all wrong.
@Simon – Thank you for the compliments. The element in your current theme that would be controlling the style of the widget title (and subsequent elements) would most likely be:
li.widget.bns-featured-tag h3 { ... }The exact placement within the Thesis theme style sheet(s) may require additional assistance from the author.
Thanks, that does the job brilliantly. Luckily I’m using the thesis theme, so even I can manage to make changes to it, once pointed in the right direction. Great plugin. Nice blog design too,
@Simon – I’m glad you got it sorted out … and thanks, again 🙂
Edward – one more question: I want to add a paragraph return (or css /html equivalent) between each entry to give the whole thing a bit more space – so it doesn’t seem so crowded. I’m not sure how to do this, however. Can it be done in the CSS? Or do I need to edit the plugin somehow? I have already done this – removing the ‘strong’ attribute on the post titles.
@Simon – This element should affect the spacing between the posts being displayed:
li.widget.bns-featured-tag .post { ... }Try using the ‘margin-bottom’ property.
PS: I would not have suggested editing the plugin code itself, but now that you have you may be on your own with future updates.
hi,
can i use this plugin, in a static page. there is a funciotn to call?
es: [BNS Featured Tag (some option….)]
Can I call this funcion to display, in a statics page, for example:
10 recent post DECRESCENT
with tag=”….”
with title
with post
with permanent link
with the author
ecc
ecc.
thanks
great job
@Carlo – Thank You! If you look inside the plugin at the code you will find all the function call it makes, but if you are trying to use the plugin on a “static” page outside of the WordPress installation you will need to add more code to allow for the function(s) to be called.
please … tell me …
i use WP, but i’m so ??? with PHP and function ()
can i use shot code in WP static page?
Thanks again
@Carlo – There are no shortcodes generated by the plugin. If you want me to review this further please see my WordPress Services page.
PS: I edited your comment replacing, in my opinion, an inappropriate word with ??? Please consider this page viewable by all ages and write accordingly. Thank you. EAC
I’m sorry
google translate is not perfect.
Thanks a lot
Hi,
very interesting plugin. My question is: can you use it in a specific post to create a tag-based list of posts (like a table of contents)
Thanks Thomas
@Thomas – The shortcode functionality that was recently added mimics almost all of the potential of the widget functionality. I would expect it is possible provided you set the correct parameters … I’d be interested in knowing how it works out for you.
Great plugin, thanks! Would it be possible to add a link at the bottom of the widget or after the element? Visitors can click the title, but that may not always be so obvious to some
Thanks again
@Uche – I believe I have a working solution to the idea you have suggested, but it needs more testing before I release it to the repository. If you are interested in a beta version drop me a note and I will forward the files to you … or any other readers that may be interested.
* Sorry that should have said “or after the excerpt” not element
@Uche – Thanks for the compliment. Currently the plugin displays an “excerpt” that follows the standard output of `the_excerpt()` function. There may be a simple modification to consider for it, I will have to add it to the plugin’s REVIEW list of items.
Thank you for the great plugin. It really does it’s job very well. I have one feature request for an upcoming version perhaps: it would be nice when the plugin (widget) could sort the posts in another order than the default.
On my site I’m reordering the posts using a hack in the code on line 181 (version 1.9):
query_posts( “tag=$tag_choice&posts_per_page=$show_count&orderby=date&order=ASC” );
The &orderby=date&order=ASC is added. This extra sorting function could also be a checkbox in the widget i presume.
@Eelco – Thank you for choosing BNS Featured Tag and for the feedback. I will definitely look into this idea.
thanks for this cool plugin. one tiny little issue … if you don’t have a custom style sheet the plugin will create a 404 not found error link.
thanks again … excellent plugin.
@max – Thanks. I’ll have that fixed in the next update. It will be on GitHub shortly …
@max – There is a “fixed” version now on GitHub: https://github.com/Cais/bns-featured-tag (version 1.9.1-alpha)
The changes are in the `BNSFT_Scripts_and_Styles` function which can be edited into your active version … the update to the WordPress version may still be a day or two away as I look for any other items to address.
I am having difficulty getting the shortcode to work. I am using
But this is showing posts that do not have this tag. Also, thumbnails are not showing. If I use the shortcode for bnsfc then it works fine…but I want to key off of tags.
Regards,
Bill
@Bill – The shortcode parameters you are using appear fine but there is no need for commas between the parameters. Give it a try without them.
Thanks, it’s a great series of plugin. However the thumbnail seems not working. However featured category plugin works, the same location and same posts. I guess it must be something wrong with featured tag plugin. The theme used is ‘responsive’, the free one.
@Chao – I see the issue … and I will look into it. Thanks for the feedback.
@Chao – I just committed version 1.9.2 to the WordPress Extend Plugins repository, this should fix the immediate issue of the post thumbnails not showing. There will be more updates to follow, but that will be in version 2.0.
Hello, thank you for the great plugin as it is the only that worked on my theme as I wanted.
However, i would prefer to show image only, is there a way to remove excerpt fully?
Thank you in advance!
@Helena – First, linking to a site not in the public view is generally not acceptable; second, asking me to explain how to modify my plugin when you apparently are contacting my from a web development organization (and likely intend to charge a client for these modification) is even more unacceptable. Other that that, I would say what you are looking for (“show image only”) is doable, but the layout in the linked image you left may require a great deal more refactoring to accomplish but without an actual live site to compare in context I cannot say how much work might be involved.
Is it possible to hide the entire widget if it’s empty / no results? Would rather that then the default message.
@Jason – This is an interesting idea and one I have been considering for most of my plugins already. At the moment the code is not written, but I will keep this in mind for BNS Featured Tag’s next development cycle. Thanks!
Is there a way to retrieve JUST the list of tag IDs set in the BNS widget? I would like to populate an array with these IDs and use them to exclude the tags set in BNS from another tag listing.
Thanks!
@timichango – Now that is a really interesting question. I would suspect you should be able to pull the ‘tag_choice” option out of the database once you have identified the specific widget instance but definitely not something I have looked into before. Good Luck!
Hi!
Is there a way to exclude categories in the shortcode?
Thanks!
Josh
@Josh – There is no current option related to categories in this plugin, you might look at BNS Featured Category if you are wanting to display based on a category selection/exclusion.
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