Comments on: Multiple Featured Content Galleries

By: sm

sm — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:06:42 +0000

Gr8 Post!! Just what i was looking for… Though, somehow its driving me crazy maybe someone can help.

i followed all the steps above to get the galery into all my categories, astronomy, science, etc.. so i want to show just featured posts out of those categories. but somehow it displays still every featured post in every galery.

on the FCG options page i selected "use posts.." and "randomize.." and under post ids i got like 15 featured posts.

every single one of those posts has this custom field with id.

what is wrong here?

What settings do i ned in the FCG optionspage to make this working?

thanks for any help!

http://www.streaming-madness.net if you want to look at it…

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:48:02 +0000

Ah! Got it. If I can figure it out – I will let you know… (but can't guarantee I'll have the time)

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:28:52 +0000

Thanks for the quick response. I'm not even into my second day with FCG, but the current version does allow for page IDs or a category ID, it's the first item to configure and the page ID's are just passed in like this: 16,23,46

The way we're using WordPress for our site, we can't easily use posts for this.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:29:47 +0000

I could be wrong – but the featured gallery plugin makes use of a posts category to know what group of posts to pull in. Since pages don't get categories – it wouldn't work the same way. The plugin would need a complete re-rewrite in order to pull in a series of pages…

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:26:48 +0000

Great post! How would we do this for pages instead of categories?

Is it possible to create a custom field and pass in a variable number of pages?

By: Girl Genius

Girl Genius — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:52:49 +0000

Worked like a charm! Just the number of the category is all that's needed in the value field.

Nice job and thanks so much!

By: Girl Genius

Girl Genius — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:53:06 +0000

Ok my comment got screwed up somehow lol.

Am I supposed to put only the number of the Category ID?

By: Girl Genius

Girl Genius — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:51:46 +0000

Great walkthrough! Very useful.

My only question comes when you're talking about the category feature rotator and adding the category id to the value field. I'm about to try it, and I'll figure it out by process of elimination, but am I supposed to put just category ID number and nothing else?

Again, great tutorial! High five!