Blog post filters

[Steph Jensen]

I'm trying to make a blog post feed, with posts that are selected/featured, to be listed on the front page of the site.
Do you have any tips to let admin or moderators specify what blog posts get featured on the front page?

[Joel R]

Are you looking to ...

• Manually select? 
• Auto select?

If you're looking to manually select, then you can choose whatever personal criteria you want.  I personally like to choose ones that have a lot of reactions or comments, because it means the rest of the community has already signaled that its a popular post.  I also pick blog entries with especially informative from my superusers, who I know post high quality content.  

If you auto select, the only standard filters are Pinned / Featured / Hidden or X number of comments.  

[Steph Jensen]

Thanks @Joel R

I'm looking for a way to actually pick them. How do I add the posts that I want in the feed to that feed? I could add a tag and only list blog posts that have that tag but then anybody could use it and gave their posts featured on the front page

[Meddysong]

Feature them and then only show featured entries in the feed.

[Steph Jensen]

9 minutes ago, Meddysong said:

Feature them and then only show featured entries in the feed.

There is a feature feature?

I can't use the promoted content feature because the superblock widget that I want to use can't feed off that. So I need a blog post feed with only featured posts

[Meddysong]

 

[Steph Jensen]

Thank you very much guys!
This worked. The downside is that i now have a featured block at the top of the blogs page, but thats alright