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== Featured Content

'''Proposed Lead:''' wonderboymusic

'''People (currently) involved:'''
wonderboymusic, tmoorewp, obenland, taylorde, DrewAPicture, carldanley, mfields, jayjdk, jcastaneda, swissspidy, melchoyce, karmatosed, sabreuse, rdall, mt_Suzette

=== Terms:
'''Area:''' A location in a theme where featured content displays. Areas are defined by and stored in the theme. Areas may appear in multiple locations.
'''Post:''' This includes Posts and Pages. Support for custom post types may be provided by filter. Posts may appear in multiple areas simultaneously.
'''Collection:''' A group of posts. Ideally defined implicitly by dropping posts in an area.

=== Outline

We will need to create a UI that gives publishers the following abilities:
  •	Add/Remove posts to/from area.
	•	Move a post from one area to another.
	•	Define a custom title, excerpt, and featured image for a post.
	•	Manage collections.
	•	Move a collection from one area to another.

We possibly need to create a metabox in the edit post/page screen so that publishers can:
	•	Add the post to an area(s).
	•	Remove the posts from an area(s).
	•	Define a custom title, excerpt, and featured image for a post.

And of course an API :)
  • Register an area or areas
  • Get featured posts for an area

=== General requirements:
	•	Collections and their assigned posts have to be portable between themes, and ex-/importable.

=== Features for a v2:
	•	Scheduling collections
	•	Area-agnostic custom title, excerpt. and featured image
	•	Hierarchical areas