[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24857: Easy-to-manage featured content for highlighting posts

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#24857: Easy-to-manage featured content for highlighting posts
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 Reporter:  lancewillett     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Themes           |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |
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Comment (by obenland):

 == Featured Content

 '''Proposed Lead:''' wonderboymusic

 '''People (currently) involved:'''
 wonderboymusic, tmoorewp, obenland, taylorde, DrewAPicture, carldanley,
 mfields, jayjdk, jcastaneda, swissspidy, melchoyce, karmatosed, sabreuse,
 rdall, mt_Suzette

 === Terms:
 '''Area:''' A location in a theme where featured content displays. Areas
 are defined by and stored in the theme. Areas may appear in multiple
 locations.
 '''Post:''' This includes Posts and Pages. Support for custom post types
 may be provided by filter. Posts may appear in multiple areas
 simultaneously.
 '''Collection:''' A group of posts. Ideally defined implicitly by dropping
 posts in an area.

 === Outline

 We will need to create a UI that gives publishers the following abilities:
         •       Add/Remove posts to/from area.
         •       Move a post from one area to another.
         •       Define a custom title, excerpt, and featured image for a
 post.
         •       Manage collections.
         •       Move a collection from one area to another.

 We possibly need to create a metabox in the edit post/page screen so that
 publishers can:
         •       Add the post to an area(s).
         •       Remove the posts from an area(s).
         •       Define a custom title, excerpt, and featured image for a
 post.

 And of course an API :)
 * Register an area or areas
 * Get featured posts for an area

 === General requirements:
         •       Collections and their assigned posts have to be portable
 between themes, and ex-/importable.

 === Features for a v2:
         •       Scheduling collections
         •       Area-agnostic custom title, excerpt. and featured image
         •       Hierarchical areas

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