Editor theme – featured posts in sidebar

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    e7testsite · Member ·

    Hi,
    Regarding the Editor theme:
    I have been struggling to get some featured posts into the left sidebar for quite some time now. They just don’t show up! And I can’t figure out why. I have half a dozen posts tagged as ‘featured’ and was hoping for that really nice look of thumbnail images displayed on the left, per the themes demo and the instruction:

    “Then when you’re publishing a new post, you can add a tag to your post that matches what you’ve set above, and that post will show up on the featured posts area.”
    Okay, they are not showing up.

    “To see the featured posts on your site, click the pushpin icon on the top left of the site and you’ll see all the featured posts published on your site.”

    I am very sad to say the pushpin icon does not even show up for me to click. And even on the demo page for this theme, the pushpin is there but nothing happens in the side bar when I click on it.
    For the site I am designing, it really needs to have the featured posts in the sidebar. Can you please offer some assistance?
    Thanks, Wendy

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    Hi,
    A key phrase in the first quoted sentence:

    you can add a tag to your post that matches what you’ve set above

    Have you set a featured content tag at My Sites → Customize → Featured Content, as described in the Featured Posts section of the Editor theme guide? No posts will be featured until this is done, AND the same tag is added to the posts to be featured.

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    oentries · Member ·

    Hi There,

    I have the problem.

    To follow the process you have suggested, the theme’s “Customize” interface should have “Featured Content” option. But it is not there.

    Here is the screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/0gVY3

    Can you please check and guide the easiest way?

    It will help me lot.

    Thanks

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    musicdoc1 · Member ·

    @oentries,

    Hi. The screenshot you provided suggests that you might be referring to an install of the Canard theme on a WordPress.org site. This forum is primarily for issues regarding WordPress.com sites and accounts, and consequently any answers that you see here may not be applicable to self-hosted sites.

    WordPress.com and WordPress.org are different versions of WordPress, with different support forums. See the WordPress.com and WordPress.org support page.

    Please submit your request to the WordPress.org support forums. If you haven’t already done so, you can register here: https://wordpress.org/support/register.php, to use the WordPress.org support forums.

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    @e7testsite: I took a look over your site and can see that you’ve set the featured tag up properly but the posts you’ve added it to are set to private. Posts need to be set to public in order to display correctly in the sidebar.

    You can follow the steps here to change the visibility of your posts:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-visibility/

    If you’d like to set your entire site to private until you’re ready for people to view your posts then you can do via your General Settings:

    https://wordpress.com/settings/general

    Hope that helps!

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    @oentries: You’ll need to install the Jetpack plugin to unlock the Featured Content option, along with other features that are built into WordPress.com sites.

    As per @musicdoc1’s guidance, please do post to the WordPress.org forum with further questions. We have a dedicated forum there for the Canard theme:

    https://wordpress.org/support/theme/canard

    Every thread on Canard’s dedicated WordPress.org forum will receive a reply. :)

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    oentries · Member ·

    @siobhyb

    Thanks for the solution.

    That’s the point. I have fixed it. Thanks for the help.

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    You’re welcome!

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    e7testsite · Member ·

    Dear Siobhyb,
    Thank you tons for the insight. I was just beginning to wonder if the privacy selection affected that option (since it seemed to affect one of the other options I was attempting) – a tidbit not in the general documentation. I now have the thumbtack icon and the featured blogs displaying.

    BTW, I found the blog privacy setting in https://wordpress.com/settings/reading rather than /general for this theme.

    So, now I have one more question: is there a way to cause the thumbtack option to be the default display? I greatly prefer the featured items to be the first objects in the sidebar and let the other two options be links to choose.
    Thank you again,
    Wendy

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi Wendy!

    I’m glad you were able to tweak your privacy settings. :)

    So, now I have one more question: is there a way to cause the thumbtack option to be the default display? I greatly prefer the featured items to be the first objects in the sidebar and let the other two options be links to choose.

    There isn’t a way that we can change the default behaviour using the theme’s built in options or with custom CSS, I’m afraid.

    If it’s important for you to feature images more prominently then perhaps you could consider a different theme? For example, you can feature posts/images at the top of Twenty Fourteen. You can filter for other free themes with a post slider in our repository via the following link:

    https://wordpress.com/themes/free/filter/post-slider

    Hope that information helps!

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    kollektiv123 · Member ·

    Hey, I still have a problem with my featured contents. I have jetpack installed, and my site is public. But when I add the tag “featured” to highlight some posts, they just disappear completely from my main page.
    Hop someone can help!

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    @kollektiv123: I’ve gone ahead to answer your question over here:

    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/featured-content-13

    Let’s keep the conversation going over there. It’s easier for us to keep track of different questions if they’re kept to separate threads and also prevents the original poster from receiving unnecessary email notifications.

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    e7testsite · Member ·

    Hi, Siobhyb!

    Thank you for answering my question; I always appreciate finding out more about a theme than I seem to be able to discover on my own.

    In the case of this particular theme, I really liked the layout of the thumbnail images along the sidebar so someone could select the one they were looking for and just click on it. Since I’m working on this for someone else, I can ask them how they’d like a slider – thank you for the link! I believe this closes the thread for my particular questions, at least.

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    siobhyb · Member ·

    I’m glad I could help answer your question @e7testsite.

    I do have one more suggestion for you after reading your last reply: You could try a theme like Twenty Fifteen. That theme supports widgets in the left sidebar. It’d be possible to add the Display WordPress Posts widget to display a listing of your most recent posts with a thumbnail.

    Hope that’s helpful!

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