Getting into Genesis: How to use Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in the Featured Post Widget

I’ve started dabbling with the Genesis framework lately, trying to see what all the rage is about.

For one of my recent projects, I created a Custom Post Type called “Classes” using WPGenerate (the guys behind WPGenerate spoke at WordCamp Israel 2014).

I wanted to display posts from said Classes custom post type via the Genesis Featured Post Widget, that comes bundled with Genesis, but unfortunately the widget only accepts… you guessed it…posts.

So, I did some searching and the results led me to a really outdated plugin that didn’t work for me at all: Genesis Featured Widget Amplified

Then, eventually I found this plugin which is awesome and did exactly what I needed: Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget which I quickly marked as a favorite plugin in my WordPress.org account. This widget lets you choose to display content from posts, pages, and custom post types.

Here’s a screenshot of the Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget in action showing the custom post type “Classes” that I created:

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Joe

Thanks for sharing that.

I’ve just starting using custom posts types on a new site and wasnt aware there would be this problem so it’s good to see the solution before I needed it.

Thanks.
Jess

Not sure if you’re aware, but your links are backwards.

Genesis Featured Widget Amplified links to https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-featured-content-widget/ and Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget links to https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-featured-widget-amplified/

Thought you should know so that you could correct it! Cheers!
- Rebecca
  
  Thank Jess! Fixed 🙂
Tom Finley

The cool thing about GSFCW, is definitely not its name, but the fact that it has a ton of hooks you can tap into, just like Genesis does. If you look at Travis Smith’s [github documentation](https://github.com/wpsmith/genesis-sandbox-featured-content-widget), you can imagine all the possibilities.

At http://www.su.edu we got a menu filter set up, that pulls from a Custom Menu on site 1 of the Multisite, and loads along with the news posts. It’s not very elegant and I’d prefer to filter by a custom meta box on the back end, which is technically feasible, but I haven’t circled back around to implement it.
Susanta

Hello Rebecca,

I’m using this plugin to display posts on my home page. Is there a way I could replace the Read More links with Read More buttons?

Here’s what it looks like right now: http://topleague.in/ (Please, look at the blog section).

Thanks in advance!

Getting into Genesis: How to use Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in the Featured Post Widget

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