Using lower resolution/size images for thumbnails on posts index

You will have to edit your theme files for that, but you can use the_post_thumbnail (Codex) to show the featured image in a smaller size. This is an example from the Codex which you can probably use 1 to 1: <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/189741/<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”> <?php … Read more

Add specific class to featured posts

I hope that “featured” will be a custom field of posts. In that case you can check the value of field using: $desc = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘featured’, true); You can use if-else condition and check that if you get value=1 {or what you assigned for featured} then apply class”hot”. Give it a try. best of luck

Rotate featured post image

You could add time params to your WP_Query. Posts that have the same tag and were published during the current week: <?php $recent = new WP_Query(‘post_type=stories&story_tag=featured&posts_per_page=4&year=”.date(“Y’).’&w=’.date(‘W’); ?> Source: the codex and me since i recently did this.

How to filter get previous post function by meta value DESC and post date DESC?

You should just do a new full query for all posts (not just featured ones), and set the orderby to meta_value and just check when doing the loop, if that post meta value is yes, and output the featured template, otherwise output standard one. https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters UPDATE: Maybe something like this: $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => … Read more