From the course: Learning Genesis for WordPress
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Featured Post widget
- [Instructor] The Genesis Featured Post widget is another standard widget that comes with the Genesis framework. It's similar to the Featured Page widget, except that it shows posts instead of pages and allows you to show multiple posts within a single widget instance. We're already here in the customizer, so let's go ahead and add a Featured Post widget to the primary sidebar here. Here are the widget settings, and you can see that there are a lot of configuration options, so let's break each one down. The title is simply the title of my widget, and it's going to show on the front end of the site. I'll title mine "Latest Posts." And we can see that over here on the preview. Next up is the category. We can choose to show posts from all categories or a specific category on our site. And from there, we can opt to show however many posts we want. Now, if we want to offset posts, which is a handy option if you're…
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