A Novel Spider Web Log Characteristic - Featured Post
Friday, December 18, 2015
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Last week, Blogger Engineering announced their latest feature, "Featured Post".
This is a quick together with tardily means to highlight a specific post service inwards your blog, that volition last enjoyable or useful for your readers. I promise to purpose mine to render useful advice, every bit "Read, together with Learn" - 1 time the Followers gadget has been updated, together with 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 master copy "Add a Gadget" list.
Start amongst "Add a Gadget".
You bring options to demo the post service title, together with the starting fourth dimension ikon inwards the post. And, you lot tin forcefulness out 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, together with 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 habitation page, together with at that spot it is.
One interesting detail, that nosotros should note. The characteristic is a "Featured Post" - together with it appears higher upwardly private post service pages, together with higher upwardly archive, label, master copy index pages (look up, together with see for yourself), together with static pages. Look at the bottom of my Topics index, for instance.
The championship is "Featured Post". You tin forcefulness out bring 1 gadget per weblog - together with each gadget volition characteristic 1 post. This focuses attending on 1 post. Note that you lot cannot exercise "Featured Page" - static pages are non supported.
You tin forcefulness out alone add together this characteristic once. It's called "Featured Post" for a reason.
Note also that you lot tin forcefulness out 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 or together with thus mightiness to select teaser content would last a useful add-on to the gadget. Since we're going to manually select a featured post, manually editing the teaser would non last besides 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 elementary means to demo off the content that matters most.
This is a quick together with tardily means to highlight a specific post service inwards your blog, that volition last enjoyable or useful for your readers. I promise to purpose mine to render useful advice, every bit "Read, together with Learn" - 1 time the Followers gadget has been updated, together with 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 master copy "Add a Gadget" list.
You bring options to demo the post service title, together with the starting fourth dimension ikon inwards the post. And, you lot tin forcefulness out alter the gadget title.
And I changed the gadget title, to "Read, together with Learn".
Right now, it is "An Important Update".
One interesting detail, that nosotros should note. The characteristic is a "Featured Post" - together with it appears higher upwardly private post service pages, together with higher upwardly archive, label, master copy index pages (look up, together with see for yourself), together with static pages. Look at the bottom of my Topics index, for instance.
The championship is "Featured Post". You tin forcefulness out bring 1 gadget per weblog - together with each gadget volition characteristic 1 post. This focuses attending on 1 post. Note that you lot cannot exercise "Featured Page" - static pages are non supported.
Note also that you lot tin forcefulness out 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 or together with thus mightiness to select teaser content would last a useful add-on to the gadget. Since we're going to manually select a featured post, manually editing the teaser would non last besides onerous an addition. Other than that, what's non to like?