From the course: WordPress for Education

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Featuring posts

Featuring posts

- Now let's look a way that we can draw our learner's attention to specific posts in our site. And we'll do that by using the Featured Content section which will allow post to be displayed here at the top of our Home page. Begin by going into the Customize section for your Home page and then come down to the Featured Content section. Now this may not be available in all themes. So will want to check the documentation for your specific theme. In the 2014 Theme, we have two options for laying out this Featured Content section. We can either use a Grid or a Slider. Both allow us to tag six posts with a specific name and have those posts displayed in that layout. I like using the Grid layout. Now for the Tag Name, the default is set to featured. And while this may be a fine choice if we have our own individual blog that we're creating all of the content for. However, using a common tag such as featured in a class setting where we're syndicating content coming in from our various different…

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