Because I primarily use StudioPress themes (for my sites and client sites)- I’ve gotten pretty familiar with how this plugin works. StudioPress makes it pretty simple because they’ve already put the code into the theme in order to have the featured content gallery show on the home page (you can see where the gallery will show up when looking at any of their theme demos).

One thing I’ve noticed whenever I visit the StudioPress forums (if you’ve purchased any of their themes you have access to the forum(s) ) is that there is usuallya  new question (daily) in regards to setting up this plugin. The people that answer the questions in the StudioPress forums are approved designers (approved by StudioPress) and donate their time to answer everyone’s questions. So, as a way to help other StudioPress and WordPress users (and hopefully alleviate some of the questions in the forums to thank the designers), I created this ‘How To’ pdf  for the Featured Content Gallery plugin. There is also a website for this plugin with installation ‘how-to’s’ as well. I tend to be a visual learner and thought the screenshots would help.

I’d love your comments/feedback and of course would appreciate any re-tweeting if you find the pdf helpful.

Click the download box to download the Featured Content Gallery pdf:

This plugin just keeps getting better and better! I first noticed the changes to this plugin on a client’s site. Initially I thought it was just a recent update that they (or I) had missed, so when I updated it and went to look at the settings for the plugin, I was thrilled to see the updates that were made.

There are more options to customize your gallery, one of which you may have noticed on this site. You can set the gallery to slide as opposed to rotate. You can also change the time in which the images rotate (or slide in this case). The default is 9 seconds- so all you need to do is input the time you want. Super easy! There are a few more updates for customizing (you can still set the color of the background, border and text), but I haven’t really gotten in to them too much.  One of the things from the last update that was great was that it made it that much easier to set it for specific posts or pages (as well as categories).

I’ve only been using this plugin for a couple of months, but it just keeps getting easier to use! I highly recommend it.