What is Featplug?
Featplug is a Wordpress plugin that can mine your blog's content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. It can also run as a standalone script or even integerate into any other Blog/CMS/Forum software
* Above slideshow is powered by Featplug 0.60
Latest Release: 0.64
Download FeatPlug 0.64
Installation
Documentation
Frequently Asked Questions
Support Forums
Changelog
Features
- Image caching (once a image is re-sized & rendered by plugin, it’s cached for future hits which saves lots of performance)
- Template support ( embedding & editing any output template is easy. You can just use any JS/Ajax script to output the contents!)
- Layered architecture: input_layer (Standalone, Wordpress etc) → featplug engine → output theme (simple banners, slide show etc)
- Image enlarging
- Broken Image Checking
- Supports Wordpress MU: As of 0.62 release, Featplug has native Wordpress MU support. Check wpmu demo and read the MU installation
Here's a few MU sites running the featplug:
Demo
Documentation & Support
Installation page is a good place to get started.
For usage help & examples, check the Documentation.
For any problems, please first look Frequently Asked Questions and then try the
Support Forums
What People Say About Featplug
- From Enlighten Me blog;
Anyone ever tried a magazine-style WordPress theme knows what the “featured content” is – a section that makes some of your posts distinguished from the rest and your blog to be more appealing. The only problem with this, is instead of getting everything done automatically, you have to add the custom fields manually. I’ve tried some scripts that will do the job, such as TimThumb, but still, there’re limitations (like, the path to the image must be relative).
And for now, those problems are in the past, because we have this fantastic plugin FeatPlug (see the RiWiA homepage for a demo). To get the featured content section, just upload and activate the plugin, and put the function call in a proper place among your codes. It then searches the very posts for images and display them in the format you indicate. All you have to do, is to compose the posts as usual, and that’s it, nothing more. The jobs after that are taken care of by this amazing plugin. FeatPlug also brings along 3 completely different templates to show your featured posts: imagemenu, slideshow and banners. And there’s more, you can even create template of your own.
Donate
If you liked the script and want it to be developed further, you can Donate
Licence
Featplug is Open Source. Feel free to contribute.
Development Status
- Right now, the plugin is under active development.
- Next version will be 0.70. TODO list.
- The plugin was first named as “WP-Post-Banners” and renamed to “Featplug” standing for “Featured Plugin”
- You can just watch the development at http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featplug