Features Plugin

Features by WooThemes is a free plugin for displaying features on your website. You can install it through your WordPress admin dashboard in Plugins > Add New.

After installing the plugin, you will see a new menu in your WP dashboard called Features. If you are not familiar with how to install a plugin, see: How to Install a Plugin.

To add a new feature, go to Features > Add New:

1. Add a title in the title field.
2. Add some content in the post editor.
3. Add an image through the Featured Image panel.
4. Add an URL in the Feature Details panel.
5. Publish.

You have 3 options for displaying your Features, you can insert this with a shortcode, widget or insert this directly into a php template file or custom plugin.

To add your Features as a widget go to: Appearance > Widgets to find the Features Widget. With this you can modify the following settings.

To insert features into a post or page with a shortcode use the following example as a guide:

[woothemes_features limit="10" size="100"]

You can find all of the available parameters listed below. You can simply include these in your shortcode as well.

To display your features via a theme or a custom plugin, please use the following code into the desired php file:

<?php do_action( 'woothemes_features' ); ?>

To add arguments to this, please use any of the following arguments, using the syntax provided below:

• ‘limit’ => 5 (the maximum number of items to display)
• ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’ (how to order the items – accepts all default WordPress ordering options)
• ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ (the order direction)
• ‘id’ => 0 (display a specific item)
• ‘echo’ => true (whether to display or return the data – useful with the template tag)
• ‘size’ => 50 (the pixel dimensions of the image)
• ‘per_row’ => 3 (when creating rows, how many items display in a single row?)
• ‘link_title’ => true (link the feature’s title to it’s permalink)
• ‘title’ => ” (an optional title)
• ‘before’ => ‘<div>’ (the starting HTML, wrapping the features)
• ‘after’ => ‘</div>’ (the ending HTML, wrapping the features)
• ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2>’ (the starting HTML, wrapping the title)
• ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’ (the ending HTML, wrapping the title)
• ‘category’ => 0 (the ID/slug of the category to filter by)

The various options for the “orderby” parameter are:

• ‘none’
• ‘ID’
• ‘author’
• ‘title’
• ‘date’
• ‘modified’
• ‘parent’
• ‘rand’
• ‘comment_count’
• ‘menu_order’
• ‘meta_value’
• ‘meta_value_num’

<?php do_action( 'woothemes_features', array( 'limit' => 10, 'link_title' => false ) ); ?>

The same arguments apply to the shortcode which is [woothemes_features] and the template tag, which is <?php woothemes_features(); ?>.

Adjusting the limit and image dimension, using the arguments in the three possible methods:

do_action() call:

<?php do_action( 'woothemes_features', array( 'limit' => 10, 'size' => 100 ) ); ?>

woothemes_features() template tag:

<?php woothemes_features( array( 'limit' => 10, 'size' => 100 ) ); ?>