HELP with wordpress.. Featured Post

Hello,

I'm building a wordpress blog. I've installed a theme that has the featured post feature.

The problem is whenever I post a new post it gets featured automatically, and I don't like that.. I want to take control of it, I mean I want to set up a post to be featured even if I post other posts later it will still be featured.

featuredpost.php file

			<div id="block_featuredblog" class="block">
				<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/ribbon_featuredblog.png" class="ribbon" alt="Featured Project"/><!-- CUSTOM FIELDS! -->
            	<div class="block_inside">
                
                	<?php
                		$featured = new WP_Query();
						$featured->query('showposts=1&cat=-'.BLOG); // Category 1 is the Blog Posts, so we remove that
						while($featured->have_posts()) : $featured->the_post();
						
							$wp_query->in_the_loop = true; // This line is added so that the_tags('') will work outside the regular loop.
							$featured_ID = $post->ID; // We'll store this here so that we know to skip this post in the main loop
                	?>
                
                		<?php if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'large_preview', true)) { ?>
                			<div class="image_block">
                    			<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'large_preview', true); ?>" alt="Featured Post" />
                    		</div>
                        <?php } ?>
                    	<div class="text_block">
                        
                			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                        	<small>in <?php the_category(', '); ?> tagged <?php the_tags(''); ?></small>
                			<?php the_content('Read More'); ?>
                		
                		</div>
                        
                    <?php endwhile; ?>
                </div>
            </div>
            
            

PHP:

Regards,

 

 $featured->query('showposts=1&cat=-'.BLOG);

Code (markup):

If you change that to:

 $featured->query('showposts=1&cat=X');

Code (markup):

Change x to whatever the category number is for the category you want displayed there. That should work.

 

Already tried it before, but still the problem whenever I post a new post in that category it gets featured, instead I want the previous post (in the same catergory for example) to be featured.

 

Try with query_posts('showposts=1&cat=X'); instead

 

It's the same as LeetPCUser provided!

 

The easiest way to accomplish this is to create a 'Featured Posts' category, then just reference that category. It will maintain and display the last post (in the featured post category) until you add a new one.