Featured Posts Slider
With this element you can add a slider of “featured” blog posts to your page. This is useful for blog and magazine websites, where you can highlight some hot or newest posts on your page, for example in header / hero area.
Here are some examples:
https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/lifestyle-blog/
https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/lifestyle-magazine/
https://codex-themes.com/thegem/blocks/preview/extended-03-blog-category/
Posts & Layout
Show
Here you can specify posts of which post type should be displayed in grid. Featured Posts Slider is compatible with all custom post types, which automatically appear in this control once added to your WordPress instance.
By selecting “Same Taxonomy Items (Related)" you can display posts which are related to the current post. In this case next you need to select the “Related by” taxonomy (in case you have created your own custom taxonomy it will automatically appear in “Related by” control.
By selecting “Manual Selection” you can manually select posts from different post types to display in grid. To manually select posts simply start typing the names of the respective posts in “Select Posts” control.
Source
Note: For blog posts there is one more selection possible in “Source” field: “Featured via post’s page options”. With this option you can display only special “featured” blog posts from the selected blog categories. For example: if you wish to show the slider with some “featured” (“hot”) blog articles from absolutely different blog categories (for example as a hero on your homepage – slider, teasing the “hot” news) you can use this settings.
You can set a post as “featured” post in page options of this post:
As soon as this post has been marked as “featured”, the category of this post will be immediately available for selection in “Featured Posts Slider” element in “Select Blog Categories” field
Order By, Sort Order
Specify the sort order of the items in featured posts slider.
Offset
Here you can displace or pass over the first items in slider by specifying the number of such items to pass over.
Exclude
Using exclude control you can exclude posts from being displayed in featured posts slider. You can manually specify the posts to exclude OR you can exclude the current post (where you are inserting the featured posts slider) OR you can exclude posts by taxonomy term – in this case simply start typing for example the name of the blog category, which posts should be excluded from being shown.
Layout
Style
There are two skin presets for featured posts slider you can choose from.
Layout
With this setting you can stretch the added slider to the fullwidth of your page.
All further settings allow you to style the appearance of elements inside the Featured Posts Slider.