Make use of the Featured Section.

This little post is probably more directed towards the writers of Yukan, but feel free to just enjoy the images even if the content is irrelevant to you ^^. As you guys have probably noticed, the layout has a featured section. The featured area is right of the headline section and just below the banner. Its a way of highlighting posts and hence serves several purposes. One of which is to give more attention to a certain post and the other is to give readers an easy way to access posts that may be especially worth viewing.

(SOUL RESONANCE!!! MakaMiku?)

I’ve realized that besides blissmo, no other writer has featured any of their posts yet. I’m not sure if this is because they were just not given instructions on how to do so or is there some other reason. Of course we don’t want every post featured as it would just render the featured section’s ability to highlight posts useless. So I guess this post is just a few guidelines on which posts you may wish to feature and how to do so.

(mmm… takoyaki, I also like ramune, raman and lots of other Japanese beverages… UMAIBO!!)

There are certain posts that should not be featured. Posts like episodic reviews shouldn’t be featured because these posts make up a large portion of the main content that can be found on Yukan. We want to highlight interesting, unique and posts that are different from what we usually post. However there are exceptions, such as if you feel a certain episode is so freaken epic lol, or other epicness alike. If your just not sure if you should feature a post or not just ask blissmo or me and we will sort it out. Examples of posts that defiantly should be featured are things such as batch reviews/previews. Remember these are not really rules they are just guidelines, there is allot of freedom and in most cases you can feature your content whenever you like. Just make sure others gets an equal chance.

(Still remember this image? ^^)

There is one more thing to consider when featuring something. The featured section allows for four featured posts at a time, I don’t want to see them being bumped off every minute. The oldest feature should be given at least a week on the featured board before being bumped off.

(Just a random image this time lol)

Now onto the instructions of how to feature your post.

First thing is to write up your post as you do normally, if you don’t know how to do that blissmo is gonna slap you.

(I really wanted to find a cool pic of Black Star, aw well at least he left his mark in this one)

Save your post if you believe it will explode or something, then scroll down and you should see the Custom Fields area listed under Advanced Options. Expand the tab if it isn’t already and you should see something like this:

There are two areas that need to be filled in. You have a choice of selecting “Image” in the drop down menu or simply manually typing “Image” under key. The other space that needs to be filled in is the box under Value. This is where the url of your featured image should be placed. Simply put the url eg. http://www.website.com/image.jpg

(Just look at the colours @_@;)

Now for the last step. You must select Featured as the category for your post. You may select multiple categories so it wont affect your original category choice. To do so simply look under the Categories tab, scroll down and find Featured and tick the box. Make sure the Image is 115px × 80px to avoid distortion, you may crop/re-size your image in any program you wish, if you don’t have image editing program or just simply don’t know how I’m sure some magic imp will do it for you.

(Not sure if you’ve noticed but I’m a big fan of Hatsune Miku XD)

I’m sure some of you are wondering “what about the headline section.” It works in much the same way however we don’t want any writers headlining their posts just yet. This is because unlike the featured posts, Headline posts do not appear in the main body of the website. It’s made that way to avoid creating a double post appearance. (If you don’t understand what I meant by that I’m not gonna bother to explain it -.-) As there is only one Headline that can appear at a time, this means once a headline is posted it will bump the previous one off the page. I think its best to leave the Headline for joint posts to make it fair. I haven’t discussed it with blissmo yet but we will sort it out sooner or later. Most likely the Headline will be used to display posts that are site related, posts that are written by multiple writers and posts that are so freaken epic just looking at it makes your head explode lol.