Editing Featured Posts widget on homepage

[greatbigterry]

Hi, my homepage includes the Featured Posts widget on the homepage. I've set the widget in Customize to display the headline, text, a thumbnail and category of the post.

I'd like to reorder these and remove some text that shows before the category (removing "Filed Under:" Video-Audio) - how would I edit this in functions.php?

Many thanks

[Brad Dalton]

You'll need to use the widget settings or rewrite the function used in the featured posts widget.

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[greatbigterry]

Thanks Brad

Newb question, apologies, but how would I find out the name of the hook for the Features Posts widget? I'm actually using Featured Posts Advanced, but any info on how I'd find the name of the hook would be fantastic

[Brad Dalton]

I think in your case you might want to try CSS first to hide the text you don't want showing.

To reorder the different widget elements, you would need to rewrite the widget code rearranging the order of the code for each element.

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[greatbigterry]

Thanks Brad - I've got a few other changes I'd like to make as well so I think I'll need to rewrite the widget code - how would I find the name of the hook to start learning how I rewrite this?

[Brad Dalton]

Look in genesis > lib > widgets > featured-post-widget.php

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[greatbigterry]

Thanks Brad

[nooxm123]

I'm too having this problem for the best mobile price and specs webstise. Can I do this with custom css?

[nici-]

Hi there,

I tried editing the post_info part in featured post widget. I want to change the output format of the post_comments to something like:

[post_comments zero="0" one="1" more="%"]

Thus I added this format details into the featured post widget on line 54:

'post_info' => '[post_date] ' . __( 'By', 'genesis' ) . ' [post_author_posts_link] [post_comments zero="0" one="1" more="%"]',

Only unfortunately the widget still outputs the default format including the word "Comments" etc.

Any hint on how I can change the output format of post_comment in featured post widget?

Best regards and thank you,

nici-

[nici-]

Second problem: When editing the output of featured post widget here

genesis > lib > widgets > featured-post-widget.php

than these changes will be overwritten by updating genesis, right?

I'd like to add some more content to the output like star rating etc. I guess there must be a hook to add things _into the content output_ of the widget?

Best regards
nici-

[nici-]

Ok, I found out I can define

zero="0" one="1" more="%"

right in the widget settings! Great!

[Brad Dalton]

There is a filter you could try :

$title = apply_filters( 'genesis_featured_post_title', $title, $instance, $args );

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[Brad Dalton]

Actually, i think you'll need to rewrite the widget as that filter only modifies the post title.

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[greatbigterry]

Hey Brad - when you say rewrite the widget, what does that mean? Where do we start to look to find this sort of thing out?

[Brad Dalton]

In Genesis > lib > widgets > featured-post-widget.php

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[youmobile]

i have applied the same thee to my site and its looking really nice.
its my request to every participant here to view the site if any changes required please do mention any help will be really appreciated.

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