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Article Featured Widget provides a simple way to display featured articles. The difference between this widget and the article post widget is that this widget only display the title and some of the content of the articles while the article post widget can also display information like the author, publish date and tags of the article.
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Article Featured Widget provides a simple way to display featured articles. The difference between this widget and the article post widget is that this widget only display the title and some of the content of the articles while the article post widget can also display information like the author, publish date and tags of the article. This article is useful when you want to show some articles in a relatively small section such as the sidebar, because it does not contain all the extra information that the article post widget have, so it is not as crowded and looks better.
  
 
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| Article Manifest Length
 
| Article Manifest Length
 
| Maximum number of characters to display for each article.
 
| Maximum number of characters to display for each article.
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| Custom Id
 
| Type in a custom id. This id can then be used in CSS and Javascript to change the style and behaviour of this widget.
 
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| Custom Classes
 
| Type in a custom class, or mutiple classes seperated. These classes can then be used in CSS and Javascript to change the style and behaviour of this widget.
 
 
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''For global widget properties see [[Widgets#Common_Properties|Widgets]]''
  
 
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Revision as of 15:58, 15 November 2012

Article Featured Widget In Action.png

Using article featured widget to display articles.

Article Featured Widget Property.png

Property panel for article featured widget

Article Featured Widget provides a simple way to display featured articles. The difference between this widget and the article post widget is that this widget only display the title and some of the content of the articles while the article post widget can also display information like the author, publish date and tags of the article. This article is useful when you want to show some articles in a relatively small section such as the sidebar, because it does not contain all the extra information that the article post widget have, so it is not as crowded and looks better.

Name Description
Article Type Choose which type of the articles you want to display. If left blank will use the first type.
Number of Posts Enter the number of posts to display
Article Manifest Length Maximum number of characters to display for each article.

For global widget properties see Widgets