Featured Entries

[shazahm1]

There should be two levels of featured entries, "Featured" and "Featured in Category"

• "Featured" is a super entry, it will be displayed before all other entries in every circumstance.
• "Featured in Category" will display after the "Featured" entries but before the standard entries in the categories the entry is assigned.

Implementation:

• Featured status should be stored in the entry_meta table.
• This should be an optional feature, off by default.

Consider:

• Rather than limit this to just "Featured" and "Featured in Category"; why not extend the "Featured in" to locality, region and postal code. This could get more complicated and hardly ever used.

[shazahm1]

Take a look at the code for this: https://tommcfarlin.com/category-sticky-post/

[shazahm1]

The featured entries should be saved in the wp_options tables as a JSON encoded array. This would mimic bbPress super sticky topic.

https://github.com/wp-plugins/bbpress/blob/master/includes/topics/functions.php#L2051

[shazahm1]

The featured in category entries should be saved in the entry cn_entry_meta table as a JSON encoded array. This will match how bbpress handles sticky topic within a forum:

https://github.com/wp-plugins/bbpress/blob/master/includes/topics/functions.php#L2035

To do this I can hook into the cn_process_taxonomy-category action to save the meta.

[shazahm1]

When displaying results, we'll need to account for the featured and featured within category results so limit and page_limit respected. For reference see how bbPress does it:

https://github.com/wp-plugins/bbpress/blob/master/includes/topics/template.php#L141

WP core seems to handle this the same way.

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/query.php#L3552

[shazahm1]

The metabox should be a drop down (maybe radio group) with the label of "Featured" with the options:

• Normal (default)
• Featured in all Categories
• Featured in selected Categories

[shazahm1]

How should the feature entries be ordered? Obviously "Feature" would display before the "Featured with Category" entry groups. Maybe the sorting should just follow what ever order by is set to.

Since these have to be queried independently, make sure to have filters available for extensions can be made where these can be ordered in a specific order or any of the other custom orders suported by order_by.

[shazahm1]

Need to make sure to build in the ability to set expiration dates:

ref: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-an-expiration-date-to-sticky-posts-in-wordpress/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/expire-sticky-posts/