Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget

Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget adds additional functionality to the Genesis Featured Posts Widget.  Specifically it:

• Supports Custom Post Types
• Supports Custom Taxonomies
• Exclude Term by ID field
• Supports Pagination
• Supports Meta Key Values
• Supports Sorting by Meta Key
• Multiple Hooks and Filters for adding additional content

New features include:

• More filters/actions
• Everything in a single class
• Addition of column classes (including option for fifths class) & custom classes
• WP_Query optimization for speed including site transients and term cache updating
• Pushed everything to a framework approach so it can all be removed easily
• HTML5 & Genesis 2.0 updated
• Excerpt length & cutoffs options added
• White labeled naming option
• Added remove displayed posts option (won't display a post that already exists on the page)

Issues/Problems

Issues and development will be maintained in the Github repo: https://github.com/wpsmith/genesis-sandbox-featured-content-widget

Special Thanks

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the folks at StudioPress & Gary Jones, their themes make my life easier.