Selecting "Featured Post"-Tag in Theme "Editor" 1.1.8

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    zauberzebra2015 · Member ·

    Dear Support,

    After three years, I want to change my blog design from “Syntax” to “Editor”.

    Issue: On wp.com I’m able to customize the theme’s “Featured Post Area” in a simple way. I set a tag, go to the “customize” view and there I can type in the new set tag and everything is fine. Save setting, et voila – the correct posts appear in the theme sidebar.

    On my self-hosted blog, the same theme acts differently. I only get a pull-down list with already set tags. And the one I want to use is not in this list (which is not that surprising). I seems the theme uses a list generated from the most-used tags of mine. That counteracts the “featured” function somewhat.

    How do I get the theme to
    1. show me a new, freshly set tag in the list or
    2. just let me type in the new tag in the customizing view

    Thanks in advance.

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

  • catkiinson · Staff ·

    Hi,

    It looks like your website is hosted with Accelerated IT Services. 
We can only assist with WordPress.com hosted sites on this forum.

    You can ask for support in the WordPress.org forums: 
    https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

    There is a dedicated .org support forum for the Editor Theme:
    https://wordpress.org/support/theme/editor

    The difference between .ORG and .COM is explained here:

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

    Hope this helps :)

  • staff-zinnia · Staff ·

    Following up no the modlook tag but it looks like this is resolved.

  • Unknown's avatar
    zauberzebra2015 · Member ·

    Hrmmpf…I hate this .com/.org-stuff.
    Thanks for your reply anyway.

    I solved the issue in the meantime. The solution is “silly me”.

    FYI: The .com-Version of “Editor” uses the tags of a blog and can be directly edited in the customizer view.

    The .org version creates its list in the customizing view from the categories, not the tags. I added a new category, activated the checkbox, saved the article and afterwards selected the new category from the pull down list. “Save and publish” – et voila. Everything as intended.

    So it was just a matter of tags and categories.

    May the force always be with you :-)

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    @ zauberzebra2015 thanks for sharing the solution, I wouldn’t have guessed that version uses a featured category.

    Curiously, were you using the download link on this page?
    https://wordpress.com/theme/editor

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