Jetpack Featured Content Carousel autoplay function and post order questions

  • Resolved designbyvivian

    (@designbyvivian)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m wondering is there a way to make Jetpack Featured Content Carousel autoplay? Now it only moves to the next featured post on click.

    Also how to set the order of the featured post? I tried to edit the post date so they have publish date the 20th, 19th, and 18th. I want posts with publish date 20th, 19th, and 18th to show in Featured Content Carousel as 1st, 2nd and 3rd. But the order in Featured Content Carousel turned out to be 20th, 18th and 19th.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Contributor Lisa Schuyler

    (@lschuyler)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @designbyvivian!

    There isn’t an autoplay function as part of the Jetpack Featured Content.

    There also isn’t a way to shuffle the order to your preference, but you can leave out the posts you don’t want.

    You can read more about how it works here:

    https://jetpack.com/support/featured-content/

    Thread Starter designbyvivian

    (@designbyvivian)

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you @lschuyler!

    Do you have an idea how the order originally is decided by Jetpack itself then? If I know the method of the ordering designed within Jetpack then I can follow it. But it seems like it’s not strictly decided by the post publication dates (refer to my example in the previous post).

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

    7 years, 3 months ago

    Do you have an idea how the order originally is decided by Jetpack itself then?

    Jetpack’s Featured Content module doesn’t specify any ordering options, so it uses WordPress’ default orderby and order parameters: post IDs are ordered by date, in a descending order.

    It seems you’d want to change that order to ascending. You can change that order in the getter function you created for the filter parameter when declaring Featured Content support, as explained here:
    https://jetpack.com/support/featured-content/

    In that getter function you’ll be able to manipulate the results and reorder them if necessary.

    I hope this helps.

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