Comments on: Creating a featured post section w/thumbnails http://beginwithanidea.com/coding/wordpress/creating-a-featured-post-section-wthumbnails/ Creative & Technology Articles Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:29:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian http://beginwithanidea.com/coding/wordpress/creating-a-featured-post-section-wthumbnails/comment-page-1/#comment-10629 Brian Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:29:11 +0000 http://beginwithanidea.com/?p=223#comment-10629 Your featured.php file need to be included wherever you want it to appear. Let's say you want it to be placed on top of your normal loop of entries. Then place the include tag as above before that section. <pre escaped="true" lang="php"> <?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/featured.php' ); ?></pre> Where exactly do you want to place the featured content snippet on your site? and why isn't there any index.php file in your theme? It's one of the most important theme file WP needs (a fall back file)... Your featured.php file need to be included wherever you want it to appear.
Let’s say you want it to be placed on top of your normal loop of entries. Then place the include tag as above before that section.

<?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/featured.php' ); ?>

Where exactly do you want to place the featured content snippet on your site? and why isn’t there any index.php file in your theme? It’s one of the most important theme file WP needs (a fall back file)…

]]> By: Nick http://beginwithanidea.com/coding/wordpress/creating-a-featured-post-section-wthumbnails/comment-page-1/#comment-10628 Nick Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:19:32 +0000 http://beginwithanidea.com/?p=223#comment-10628 One of the instructions given here is: "Save your theme file where you included the featured.php tag." I dont understand this! Please help. What is the theme file? I put featured.php file in the main directory of my theme. I have no idea where the featured.php tag is. I dont have an index.php file in my theme directory, only functions.php. So into which file, and which line inside of that file, should I place the fetch/call code? One of the instructions given here is: “Save your theme file where you included the featured.php tag.”

I dont understand this! Please help.

What is the theme file? I put featured.php file in the main directory of my theme. I have no idea where the featured.php tag is.

I dont have an index.php file in my theme directory, only functions.php. So into which file, and which line inside of that file, should I place the fetch/call code?

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