Current Version : 1.8

WP Featured Content and Slider A quick, easy way to add and display what features your company, product or service offers, using our shortcode OR template code.

Plugin Info : Plugin Version 1.8 | Compatible Up to WordPress 6.7.X | Changelogs

Many CMS site needs to display Featured Content/Featured services on website. “WP Featured Content and Slider” is a clean and easy-to-use features showcase management system for WordPress. Display Featured Content/Featured services, features your product, company or services offers, and display them via a shortcode OR template code.

Compatible with Your Favorite Page Builder and Themes

Page Builder Support

Featured Content and Slider Pro Features

Powerful Shortcode Generator Tool

You are able to setup the plugin as quickly as possible due to the Built in Live Shortcode Generator.

wp-slick-slider-and-image-carousel-pro-shortcode-generator

Features:

Easy to setup and use.
20 cool featured content designs for grid and slider.
Visual Composer support.
Shortcode with strong parameters.
Display featured content on any post and page with shortcode.
Display featured content in slider or in a carousel with various slider parameters.
RTL support for slider.
Display featured content category wise.
Display featured content in your desired order with easy Drag & Drop functionality.
Category wise filtering on admin page.
Font Awesome icon support.
Custom page link on read more button.
Custom CSS plugin setting to override plugin css and add your own.
Display specific post or exclude posts with shortcode.
Display specific category post or exclude specific category posts with shortcode.
Dynamic read more button text.
Fully Responsive.
100% Multilingual at both front end and back end.
Detailed documentation included.

Demo

Change Log:

= 1.8 (09, April 2025) =
* [*] New - Added 'revision', 'post excerpt', 'author', and WordPress default custom fields support to featured content post type.
* [*] Update - Create Gutenberg blocks with block.JSON metadata.
* [*] Update - Changed slider arrow images to SVG. Now user can change the color of arrows easily.
* [*] Update - Use escaping and sanitize functions for better security.
* [*] Update - Added nonce security to plugin reset setting.
* [*] Update - Update post sorting functionality to work smoothly with pagination.
* [*] Update - Add nonce security while saving slide sorting order in the admin area.
* [*] Update - Now pagination will work with the archive page.
* [*] Update - Update Slick slider JS to stable version 1.8.0
* [*] Update - Improved WPBakery Page Builder Support.
* [*] Update - JavaScript syntax for jQuery 3.0 and higher with compatibility to WordPress version.
* [*] Update - Improved tool tip text in 'Shortcode Builder' page for better understanding.
* [*] Update - Minor changes in JS and CSS files.
* [*] Fix - Fixed post permalink issue when it is set other than 'Post name'.
* [*] Fix - Fixed slider is not displaying when page have pagination.
* [*] Fix - Fixed slider initialization issue with Elementor vertical tab.
* [*] Fix - Image is not visible in old browser when plugin lazy load is enabled.
* [*] Fix - SEO & HTML validation error of empty image source when plugin lazy load is enabled.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Tweak - Check compatibility to WordPress version 6.7.2.
* [*] Template File - Minor template file has been updated. If you have overridden the template file then verify with the latest copy.

= 1.7 (11, Nov 2021) =
* [*] Update - Remove "wp" prefix from all functions, classes and scripts.
* [*] Update - Demo and documentation link in plugin details page.
* [*] Update - Minor changes in JS and CSS files.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Template File - Minor template file has been updated. If you have override template file then verify with latest copy.

= 1.6 (30, Sep 2021) =
* [+] New - Add new settings to manage featured post slug, category slug, enable Gutenberg editor and disable archive page.
* [*] Update - Improved tool tip text in 'Shortcode Builder' page for better understanding.
* [*] Update - Add two types of filter for all shortcode and widgets.
* [*] Update - Update latest license code files.
* [*] Update - Add and change some tool tip text for shortcode generator.
* [*] Update - JavaScript syntax for jQuery 3.0 and higher with compatibility to WordPress version 5.6.
* [*] Update - Check compatibility to WordPress version 5.8.
* [*] Fix - Fixed deprecated function warning with Gutenberg block categories with latest WP version.
* [*] Fix - Fixed Range Control max value issue in Gutenberg.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.

= 1.5 (28, June 2021) =
* [+] New - Added Elementor page builder support.
* [+] New - Added SiteOrigin page builder support.
* [+] New - Added Beaver builder support.
* [+] New - Added Divi page builder native support.
* [+] New - Added Fusion Page Builder (Avada Theme Builder) native support.
* [+] New - Improved WP Bakery Page Builder Support. Now plugin works in page builder tab, accordion, toggle and etc elements.
* [+] New - Click to copy the shortcode from the getting started page.
* [*] Update - Major changes in CSS and JS.
* [*] Check compatibility with later WordPress version.

= 1.4 (17, Feb 2020) =
* [+] New - Added Gutenberg Block. Now use plugin easily with Gutenberg!
* [+] New - Added 'media_size', 'hover_pause' and 'focus_pause' parameter shortcode parameter for all slider shortcodes. Now you can pause the slider on mouse hover and slider element focus.
* [+] New - Added 'image_height' shortcode parameter for '[featured-cnt-icon-img]' and '[featured-cnt-img]'.
* [+] Update - Minified some CSS and JS.
* [+] Fix - Resolved 'query_offset' and 'pagination' related issue in all shortcode.
* [*] Tweak - Pagination will if page is divided into multiple pages with <!--nextpage--> tag.
* [*] Tweak - Pagination will work on single post also.
* [*] Tweak - Code optimization and performance improvements.
* [*] Template File - Major template file has been updated. If you have override template file then verify with latest copy.

= 1.3 (23, Feb 2019) =
* [+] Note : Please take a backup of your old plugin before update.
* [+] New - Introduced 'Shortcode Generator' functionality with Preview Panel.
* [+] New - Added Templating feature. Now you can override plugin design from your current theme!!
* [+] New - Added 'link' shortcode parameters for all shortcode.
* [+] New - Added 'include_author', 'exclude_author' and 'include_cat_child' shortcode paramters.
* [+] New - Added custom 'Post Type' supports settings.
* [+] New - Added public support to `Features` post type. Now it will work as WordPress default post type and you can view it so you can run plugin individually.
* [+] New - 'extra_class' shortcode parameter. Now you can add your extra class and use it for custom designing.
* [+] New - 'query_offset' shortcode parameter for album shortcodes.
* [+] New - Added two types pagination to shortcodes with grid type.
* [*] Updated - Plugin translation code. Now user can put plugin languages file in WordPress 'language' folder so plugin language file will not be loss while plugin update.
* [*] Updated - Font Awesome site link for icon reference.
* [*] Updated - Added prefix in CSS classes to avoid the conflict with other plugins and themes.
* [*] Updated - Rearrange design number for better understanding and user perspective.
* [*] Updated - [featured-cnt-icon-img] modified designs number are as below. The format is OLD DESIGN - NEW DESIGN number. #8 - #1, #9 - #2, #20 - #3, #21 - #4, #24 - #5, #25 - #6, #27 - #7, #31 - #8, #34 - #9
* [*] Updated - [featured-cnt-icon] modified designs number are as below. The format is OLD DESIGN - NEW DESIGN number. #22 - #8, #23 - #9, #29 - #10, #28 - #11, #29 - #12, #30 - #13, #32 - #14, #33 - #15, #35 - #16
* [*] Updated - [featured-cnt-img] modified designs number are as below. The format is OLD DESIGN - NEW DESIGN number. #10 - #1, #11 - #2, #12 - #3, #13 - #4, #14 - #5, #15 - #6, #16 - #7, #17 - #8, #18 - #9, #19 - #10
* [*] Tweak - Taken better care for image alt tag when post title contains HTML tag.
* [*] Tweak - Taken better care for data sanitization.
* [*] Tweak - Used 'wp_reset_postdata' instead of 'wp_reset_query'.
* [*] Fix - Default image is not working in [featured-cnt-icon] shortcode.
* [*] Removed - 'fa_icon_color' shortcode parameter from [featured-cnt-img] shortcode.
* [*] Remove - 'image_style' parameter from 'featured-cnt-img' shortcode.
* [*] Code Optimization and Improvements.

= Version 1.2 (13, Nov 2016) =
* [+] Added 'How it Work' page for better user interface.
* [-] Removed 'Plugin Design' page.
* [*] Updated Font Awesome CSS to latest version 4.7.0
* [*] Updated Post type and Category parameters.
* [*] Optimized some CSS.

= Version  1.1 (26, Sep 2016) =
* [*] Resolved some CSS issues.
* [+] Added 15 new designs.

= Version 1.0 (09, June 2016) =
* Initial release.

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