Is “Featured Content” in Twenty Fourteen done with a plugin, or is it native in WP4.0?

The featured content is part of the TwentyFourteen theme, and is not implemented as a plugin, but rather as an Appearance > Customize setting (via get_theme_mod()), which allows the use of a Grid or Slider layout, choosing posts base on the tag provided. BTW, I figured this out only after reading your post! So thanks … Read more

How do you change the theme location?

You can register additional directory or directories with themes by using register_theme_directory() function, that accepts filesystem path to folder. Note that this isn’t typical and even while core handles it mostly fine, third party code in themes and plugins might not.

Pre-populating the Page/Post Content Editor with HTML Snippets?

@Scott B, I just read a post on Justin Tadlocks Blog regarding this same issue. The Solution Use the default_content filter hook and it to the themes function.php file. Example: <?php add_filter( ‘default_content’, ‘my_editor_content’ ); function my_editor_content( $content ) { $content = “This is some custom content I’m adding to the post editor because I … Read more