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What are featured posts?
Featuring a post allows you to keep a post on top of the front page of your blog. This is a helpful way to welcome readers to the blog or highlight an important post or announcement. Only one post can be featured at a time and the Featured Post will remain on top of the blog even as new posts are displayed below it.
What are featured post on Packback?
Featured posts are some of the can’t miss posts in a community – questions or responses that are thought-provoking and spark the curiosity of other members of the community. Every week, your professor or a Packback Community Manager will feature posts based on the Packback Community Guidelines.
How to display recent posts from a specific category?
Simply, edit the post or page where you want to display the recent posts by category. On the post edit screen, click on the add new block (+) button and then add Shortcode block to your content area. Next, you need to add your shortcode
Where do I Find my categories in WordPress?
To find the category page, you simply need to go to Posts » Categories » View page and click on the ‘View’ link below a category. That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily display recent posts by category in different areas of your website.
How to fetch posts from specific category in WordPress?
Let’s say slug of your page is category-list then your file name would be page-category-list.php. After this, the code from this file is being used for your page. You have created and assigned your template to the WordPress page. Now, let’s write a code that fetches posts attached to a category. I will use WP_Query class to fetch the posts.
You can add the same shortcode to your WordPress sidebar or any widget-ready area. Simply go to the Appearance » Widgets page and add a ‘Text’ widget to your sidebar. You can now paste your shortcode [categoryposts] to the widget’s text area.