- The “Featured Posts” are displayed by tags, the post needs to have the tag “featured“.
- First make sure that you’ve added properly the tag “featured” so make a test to see if the tag added exists: like this http://yoursite.com/tag/featured/
- If will show “featured-2” is because a category with the same name “featured” was created, if that’s the case you’ll need to delete both and after that create again the tag “featured” or you can change the tag like “mypost”, “postslider” etc. to do that, open header.php file line 80 and you’ll see this:
<?php query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'tag' => 'featured', 'posts_per_page' => $smof_data['featured-posts'] ) ); ?>
- Now change the tag “featured” with a different tag, save the files and upload them via FTP.
- The Number of posts can be changed via Theme Options > Header Settings > Featured Posts.
Display the Featured Post – Slider
- Go to Theme Options > Header Settings > Featured Posts or Big Search, and select “Featured Posts” and click Save All Changes.
- Create a new page and from “Page Attributes” choose “Template – Home.”.
- Dashboard > Posts > Add New, add the tag “featured”
- Upload a Featured Image, a recommendable size will be bigger than 480×385, but the image added can have any size.
- Click “Publish” and that’s it.
- Next, read the steps from – > Home Page
Display the Big Search
- Go to Theme Options > Header Settings > Featured Posts or Big Search, and select “Big Search” and click Save All Changes.
- Create a new page and from “Page Attributes” choose “Template – Home.”.
- Next, read the steps from – > Home Page
Hide / Disable Featured Posts & Big Search
Go to Theme Options > Header Settings > Display: Featured Posts or Big Search, choose “No” and click the button from the top or from the bottom “Save All Changes”.