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When To Use the Featured Content Gallery Plugin

November 12, 2009 by Russell

Use the Featured Content Gallery plugin when you want to put an attractive slideshow on your home page that encourages your visitors to click through to individual featured posts or pages.

For each featured post. the slideshows displays an image and some ‘teaser’ text. If the visitor clicks on the slideshow then they go through to the full post being featured.

Key Plugin Features

  • automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages
  • add a post to the gallery by adding a custom field to the post or page
  • auto-generated thumbnails which appear in the carousel
  • auto-generated teaser text using the post title and first few lines
  • customizable gallery styles and transitions

When Not To Use Featured Content Gallery Plugin

  • when you want to show more than one slideshow
  • when you want to have more than one image per post

Filed Under: Images and Videos, Knowledge Base, Plugins and Widgets Tagged With: Slideshow

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