WP Featured News is a post listing plugin which shows the posts with different styles. It has 30+ WPBakery Page builder addons or shortcodes those user can insert easily. No coding knowledge is required. Also It has ajax functionality and widgets those make the website more attractive.
The installation process of WP Featured News Plugin is quite simple and straightforward, and shouldn't cause you any troubles at all. Independent of you previous experience with WordPress plugins, you aren't likely to have any problems, just follow these simple steps:
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If you download new plugin version from CodeCanyon please follow these steps to upgrade from the existing version:
1. Go to your FTP and open WordPress plugins folder
2. Delete the old WP Featured News | Ultimate Posts Listing Plugin version folder
3. Upload the new version of WP Featured News | Ultimate Posts Listing Plugin
4. Go to WP-admin panel, open Plugins section.
5. Deactivate WP Featured News | Ultimate Posts Listing Plugin, and then activate it again.
STEP 1: At the beginning, You must have installed WP Featured Post plugin and WPBakery Page Builder plugin in your wordpress site.
STEP 2: Then We will create a new page and choose the backend editor as a editor.
STEP 3: As we got a blank page, so we need to add now Post Block element in this area. So click on the Add Element button. You will see a Elements charts. From there click on tab “by Fluent-Themes Shortcode”. There is showing all Post Blocks. Now We will choose Post Block-1 for post block with tab.
STEP 4: We got a popup chart of Post Block fields. Now We have to fill up the fields. In the General Tab We found general fields Such as Heading, Category Selection, Title Tag selection, Image Animation, Load more button functionality, color etc.
This field contains the headline of post block
This dropdown contains 1 to 13 different headline styles.
This dropdown is for which heading tag (H1 – H6) you want to use for title.
This is for choose the post category.
If you want to add post featured image hover animation effect then check it.
If you want to add border outside the post block then check it.
If you want to add ajax Next Prev button for post, just check it.
If you want to add category wise post view with tab, just check it.
When we checked on Tab options, we got choose category option for top tab. We need to check on the categories those we want to show on top tabs.
When we checked on Tab options, we got choose category option for dropdown tab. We need to check on the categories those we want to show on dropdown tabs.
If you want to set a specific post as large post then put the post id here. The quickest and easiest way to find a post ID is done from the All Posts screen — found by logging into the WordPress dashboard and clicking Posts > All Posts. From here, simply hover your mouse over the post you want to find the ID for. Now, take a look in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. More specifically, the post ID is the number that comes after the “post=” and before the “&“.
It contains how many words want to show for large post title. Enter here numeric value only.
It contains how many words want to show for large post excerpt. Enter here numeric value only.
Enter here a numeric value of how many post want to show.
Enter here numeric value of how many words want to show for posts except large post.
It contains how many words want to show for post excerpt except large post. Enter here numeric value only.
Enter here post block wrapper padding.
Enter here post block wrapper margin.
We can choose google fonts from the dropdown.
We can set the font weight from the dropdown.
We can set the text font size from here.
We can set the text line height from here.
STEP 5: So we filled up the fields. Then save changes and publish or update the page. Thats’ all.
You can easily use shortcode [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91"]
to show post block in your page or post.
Parameter | Example |
---|---|
category | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91"] |
heading | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" heading="Headline" ] |
heading_style | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" heading="Headline" heading_style="style5" ] |
title_tag | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" heading="Headline" title_tag="h1" ] |
imageanimate | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" imageanimate="yes" ] |
blockborder | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" imageanimate="yes" blockborder="yes" ] |
nextprevbtn | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" imageanimate="yes" blockborder="yes" nextprevbtn="yes" ] |
taboption="yes" | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" imageanimate="yes" blockborder="yes" nextprevbtn="yes" taboption="yes" ] |
toptabcategory | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" imageanimate="yes" blockborder="yes" nextprevbtn="yes" taboption="yes" toptabcategory="91,92" ] |
dropdowntabcategory | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" imageanimate="yes" blockborder="yes" nextprevbtn="yes" taboption="yes" toptabcategory="91,92" dropdowntabcategory="93,94" ] |
blocksubtabbackground | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" blocksubtabbackground="#1e73be" ] |
large_post_id | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" large_post_id="583" ] |
large_post_title_limit | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" large_post_title_limit="100" ] |
large_post_excerpt_limit | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" large_post_title_limit="100" large_post_excerpt_limit="15" ] |
itemcount | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" itemcount="5" ] |
title_character_limit | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" title_character_limit="100" ] |
wordlimit | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" title_character_limit="100" wordlimit="15" ] |
blockcolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" title_character_limit="100" wordlimit="15" blockcolor="#1e73be" ] |
blockheadingcolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" heading="Headline" blockheadingcolor="#1e73be" ] |
blockheadingbackgroundcolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" heading="Headline" blockheadingbackgroundcolor="#1e73be" ] |
blockposttitlecolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" blockposttitlecolor="#1e73be" ] |
blocktextcolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" blocktextcolor="#1e73be" ] |
blockhovercolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" blockhovercolor="#1e73be" ] |
blockdatecolor | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" blockdatecolor="#1e73be" ] |
blockcategorybackground | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" blockcategorybackground="#1e73be" ] |
block_padding | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" block_padding="10px 5px 0px 10px" ] |
block_margin | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" block_margin="10px 5px 0px 10px" ] |
current_time | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" current_time="1564467103" ] |
title_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" title_font_size="22px" ] |
title_line_height | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" title_font_size="22px" title_line_height="22px" ] |
title_padding_bottom | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" title_font_size="22px" title_line_height="22px" title_padding_bottom=" 10px" ] |
headline_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" headline_font_size="22px" ] |
headline_line_height | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" headline_line_height="22px" ] |
excerpt_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" excerpt_font_size="22px" ] |
excerpt_line_height | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" excerpt_line_height="22px" ] |
meta_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" meta_font_size="22px" ] |
meta_line_height | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" meta_line_height="22px" ] |
next_button_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_1_post category="91" next_button_font_size="22px" ] |
button_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" button_font_size="22px" ] |
button_width | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" button_width="220px" ] |
orderby | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" orderby="ID" ] |
order | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" order="ASC"] |
lg_post_meta_color | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" lg_post_title_color ="#d3d3d3"] |
lg_post_title_color | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" lg_post_title_color ="#d3d3d3"] |
sm_post_title_color | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" sm_post_title_color ="#d3d3d3"] |
sm_post_meta_color | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post category="91" sm_post_meta_color="#d3d3d3"] |
lg_post_cat_meta | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post lg_post_cat_meta="yes" ] |
lg_post_date_meta | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post lg_post_date_meta="yes" ] |
sm_post_cat_meta | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post sm_post_cat_meta="yes" ] |
sm_post_date_meta | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post sm_post_date_meta="yes" ] |
heading_border_color | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post heading_border_color="#d3d3d3" ] |
lg_title_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post lg_title_font_size="35px" ] |
sm_title_font_size | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post sm_title_font_size="20px" ] |
lg_title_line_height | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post lg_title_line_height="35px" ] |
sm_title_line_height | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post sm_title_line_height="20px" ] |
load_more_btn_bg | [wfnews_post_block_ 2 _post load_more_btn_bg="#d3d3d3" ] |
Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
heading_style | string | Accepts: style1 | style2 | style3 | style4 | style5 | style6 | style7 | style8 | style9 | style10 | style11 | style12 | style13 | |
title_tag | string | h4 | Accepts: h1 | h2 | h3 | h4 | h5 | h6 |
orderby | string | title | Accepts: title | ID | name | date | comment_count |
order | string | DESC | Accepts: ASC | DESC |
lg_post_cat_meta | string | yes | Accepts: yes | no |
lg_post_date_meta | string | yes | Accepts: yes | no |
sm_post_cat_meta | string | yes | Accepts: yes | no |
sm_post_date_meta | string | yes | Accepts: yes | no |
For Example:
At first, You have to insert the WFNews Popular Posts widget into sidebar or any other widget area. See the example in the screenshot-
Then insert WPbakery Widgetised Sidebar Addon/element into the page where you want to display the widget.
Now you have to edit the Widgetised Sidebar Element. And choose sidebar from dropdown. Then click save changes and update. That's all.
All post block have their own font settings separately. Have Title Settings, Headline Settings, Excerpt Settings, Meta Settings, Button Settings. For Example, We choose Title settings tab. See the screenshots.
Using Font Family Dropdown, We can choose any google font.
Using Font Style Dropdown, We can choose the font weight.
Using Large Title Font Size input field, We can set font size for large post of post block.
Using Small Title Font Size input field, We can set font size for small post of post block.