linchpin / post-type-spotlight

Allows admin chosen post types to have a featured post check box on the edit screen. Also adds appropriate classes to front end post display, and allows featured posts to be queried via a taxonomy query.

Latest Release: 3.0.3

Post Type Spotlight

Easily allows you to designate posts, pages, attachments and custom post types as featured.

Description

The plugin displays a toggle within the publish area to feature a post. The toggle only appears on admin selected post types which can be selected in the Settings -> Writing screen.

When a post is designated as featured:

• It receives featured and featured-{$posttype} classes via the post_class filter.

• Shows featured ⭐️ in the post type's admin post list screen.

• Assigns the post a hidden taxonomy term (featured) that can easily be queried via the pts_feature_tax taxonomy.

• Note: For the plugin to work on attachments, you must be using 3.5 or above. All other features will work on 3.1.0 and up.*

New in Version 3.0.0

• Better compatibility with the Block Editor and the enhancements it brings.
• Added a new Featured Posts Variation of the Query Loop
• Added the ability to filter teh Featured Posts Query Loop to only show featured posts
• Added the ability to filter the Featured Posts Query Loop to show all posts excluding featured posts
• Added the ability to filter the Featured Posts Query Loop to show all posts and show featured posts first (similar to sticky)
• Updated all dependencies
• Added the ability to sort post lists by featured posts.

Installation

1. Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Navigate to the Settings->Writing section and select the post types you would like to have the featured abilities.

Screenshots

1. The settings page.
2. Options on the edit screen
3. Markup example when using post_class();
4. Shows featured posts in post edit tables.

post-type-spotlight's Issues

Javascript error when still using Classic Editor

This is resulting in some plugins not working properly. Example Yoast

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'updateCategory')

Check to see if the post is using the Classic Editor, if so. Double check the loaded javascript

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• chore(deps): update dependency phpcompatibility/phpcompatibility-wp to v2.1.5
• chore(deps): update dependency php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint to ^v1.4.0
• chore(deps): update dependency squizlabs/php_codesniffer to ^3.10.0
• chore(deps): update svenstaro/upload-release-action action to v2.9.0
• fix(deps): update dependency @wordpress/components to v27
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• chore(deps): update dependency phpseclib/phpseclib to v3.0.36 [security]
• chore(deps): update dependency friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer to ^3.57.2
• chore(deps): update npm dev dependencies (mini-css-extract-plugin, webpack)
• fix(deps): update npm frontend (@wordpress/block-editor, @wordpress/blocks, @wordpress/components, @wordpress/compose, @wordpress/data, @wordpress/element, @wordpress/i18n, dompurify, node)
• chore(deps): update actions/cache action to v4
• chore(deps): update dependency @wordpress/scripts to v27
• chore(deps): update dependency wp-coding-standards/wpcs to v3
• chore(deps): update google-github-actions/release-please-action action to v4
• chore(deps): update peter-evans/create-pull-request action to v6
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• fix(deps): update dependency php to >=7.4.33
• fix(deps): update dependency php to v8

Detected dependencies

composer

composer.json

• php >=7.0
• composer/installers ^v2.2.0
• phpseclib/phpseclib 3.0.34
• linchpin/phpdocumentor-template-markdown ^1.0
• dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer ^1.0.0
• wp-coding-standards/wpcs ^2.3.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer ^3.8.1
• phpcompatibility/php-compatibility ^9.3.5
• php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint ^v1.3.2
• php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter ^1.0.0
• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer ^3.48.0
• phpcompatibility/phpcompatibility-wp 2.1.4
• automattic/phpcs-neutron-ruleset ^3.4
• saggre/phpdocumentor-markdown ^0.1.4

github-actions

.github/workflows/phpcbf.yml

• actions/checkout v4
• shivammathur/setup-php v2
• peter-evans/create-pull-request v5

.github/workflows/phpcs.yml

• actions/checkout v4
• rtCamp/action-phpcs-code-review v3.0.1

.github/workflows/phplint.yml

• actions/checkout v4
• shivammathur/setup-php v2

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

• google-github-actions/release-please-action v3
• actions/checkout v4
• actions-ecosystem/action-get-latest-tag v1.6.0
• actions/cache v3
• php-actions/composer v6
• svenstaro/upload-release-action 2.7.0

.github/workflows/wiki.yml

• actions/checkout v4
• php-actions/composer v6
• Andrew-Chen-Wang/github-wiki-action v4

.github/workflows/wordpress.yml

• actions/checkout v4
• actions-ecosystem/action-get-latest-tag v1.6.0
• actions/cache v3
• php-actions/composer v6
• 10up/action-wordpress-plugin-deploy 2.2.2

npm

blocks/package.json

• @wordpress/block-editor ^12.17.0
• @wordpress/blocks ^12.26.0
• @wordpress/components ^25.15.0
• @wordpress/compose ^6.26.0
• @wordpress/data ^9.19.0
• @wordpress/element ^5.26.0
• @wordpress/i18n ^4.49.0
• classnames 2.5.1
• dompurify 3.0.8
• lodash 4.17.21
• @wordpress/scripts ^26.19.0

package.json

• resolve-url-loader ^5.0.0
• @wordpress/scripts ^26.19.0
• mini-css-extract-plugin ^2.7.7
• webpack 5.89.0
• webpack-cli 5.1.4
• node >= 20.11.0

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Breaking Change w/ Gutenberg

See WordPress/gutenberg#33418 (comment)

Update enqueue for block JS

Update enqueue of post-type-spotlight-block-editor in class-post-type-spotlight-block-editor.php to use https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/enqueue_block_editor_assets/

Block Editor: Error on page load

The "post-type-post-settings" plugin has encountered an error and cannot be rendered.

This error is being thrown when attempting to check if a post has the featured taxonomy checked on post types that are not included in the Post Type Spotlight Writing settings.

Console error is as follows:

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'includes') at Admin (index.js:23:50)

This error is occurring because the check against the current post including the taxonomy is happening before a check if the current post type should have the pts_feature_tax taxonomy.