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Restricting Blog to Featured Posts
I wanted the blog and archive to be restricted to featured content using a meta-field. This allows our users to post content for the community that’s not featured to the public. The ability to select posts to feature is limited to admins. I used these instructions and adapted it using the following snippets:
In my snippet manager (could also be added to functions.php):
<?php
if ( current_user_can('moderate_comments') )
{
function sm_custom_meta() {
add_meta_box( 'sm_meta', __( 'Featured Posts', 'sm-textdomain' ), 'sm_meta_callback', 'post' );
}
function sm_meta_callback( $post ) {
$featured = get_post_meta( $post->ID );
?>
<p>
<div class="sm-row-content">
<label for="meta-checkbox">
<input type="checkbox" name="meta-checkbox" id="meta-checkbox" value="yes" <?php if ( isset ( $featured['meta-checkbox'] ) ) checked( $featured['meta-checkbox'][0], 'yes' ); ?> />
<?php _e( 'Featured this post', 'sm-textdomain' )?>
</label>
</div>
</p>
<?php
}
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'sm_custom_meta' );
}
?><?php
/**
* Saves the custom meta input
*/
function sm_meta_save( $post_id ) {
// Checks save status
$is_autosave = wp_is_post_autosave( $post_id );
$is_revision = wp_is_post_revision( $post_id );
$is_valid_nonce = ( isset( $_POST[ 'sm_nonce' ] ) && wp_verify_nonce( $_POST[ 'sm_nonce' ], basename( __FILE__ ) ) ) ? 'true' : 'false';
// Exits script depending on save status
if ( $is_autosave || $is_revision || !$is_valid_nonce ) {
return;
}
// Checks for input and saves
if( isset( $_POST[ 'meta-checkbox' ] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'meta-checkbox', 'yes' );
} else {
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'meta-checkbox', '' );
}
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'sm_meta_save' );Then in index.php / archive.php:
/* Start the Loop */
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'meta_key' => 'meta-checkbox',
'meta_value' => 'yes'
);
$featured = new WP_Query($args);
while ($featured->have_posts() ) :
$featured->the_post();
/*
* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
* If you want to override this in a child theme, then include a file
* called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
*
* I am not sure why we need to laod content-post_format.php only if blog_type is not standard
* lets load that in all cases.
* Please change this if required.
*/
get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', apply_filters( 'bb_blog_content', get_post_format() ) );
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