A simple widget that allows you to feature any page or post on your website.
Feature Me CTA Widget is a simple widget that allows you to turn any page or post on your website into a call to action (cta).It pulls the pages and posts from the WordPress database and allows a user to choose one to display an excerpt and featured image in a widget area. Use this widget to feature prominent articles, or promote actions on the website.
IT’S EASY TO USE. If your theme uses widgets, you can use Feature Me. Just select the post or page you want to feature in any widget area, customize some preferences and save. Done.
IT SAVES TIME. Forget about endless sticky posts. With Feature Me, you won’t waste your time swapping out sticky
posts to display your posts and pages in a prominent location. When you use Feature Me,
you there is no need to code a featured page on your website ever again.
feature-me.zip
using the WordPress plugin uploaderNot at this time. This widget pulls images from the page/post featured image.
Make sure that your theme supports featured images. If it doesn’t, add the following code to your themes
functions
.php file:
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
If your theme DOES support featured images, check to make sure that the post or page you have chosen has a featured
image attached to it.
Yes. The widget uses a css class “feature-me” from which you can target all other elements of the widget and change
the look via css.
You can also use your enter in your own css classes in the “Custom CSS Class” field.
Yes. You can utilize the “Custom CSS Class” field and enter in framework specific classes. For example if you are
using the 960.gs by Nathan Smith, you could enter in “grid_4” or similar. If you use bootstrap,
you could enter “span4” etc.
Yes. Select the custom body option and leave it blank.
To change the button color navigate to the featureme.css stylesheet:
1. Go to the plugins > editor.
2. Choose ‘Feature Me – CTA Widget’ from the plugin dropdown menu and click “select”
3. Click ‘feature-me/featureme.css’ on the right side
The button is defined in 3 areas: .feature-me a.fmBtn, .feature-me a.fmBtn:hover, .feature-me a.fmBtn:visited
Enter your own values or use http://css3buttongenerator.com to generate a button. Replace featureme.css values with
the values you generated.
WARNING If you mess up the values here, you might need to completely re-install
feature-me to get it back. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND copying the styles to your computer before tweaking anything.