Epitome Featured Category
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A WordPress plugin to set an introduction category as a metadata that helps to identify the topic of a post.

[View project page](http://freddessaint.github.com/epitome-featured-category)

##What is Epitome Featured Category ?

Epitome Featured Category is meant to set an introduction category that helps to identify the topic of a post. Note that a small coding is required. You can display the featured category in the desired location of the page with a set of functions that you call from your template. The plugin CMB2 is required for creating metaboxes.

##Features

You can display the featured category in the desired location of the page with a set of functions that you call from your template.

##Functions##
* `the_featured_category()` takes the current post or page ID and outputs the featured category.
* `get_the_featured_category($post_id)` has one optional parameter (post or page ID) and returns the featured category as a string.
* `has_featured_category($post_id)` has one optional parameter (post or page ID) and checks whether a featured category exists.

##Installation

1. Upload the `epitome-featured-category` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

##Pull Requests

I want to keep this plugin as simple as possible. But feel free to fork the project and customize it to suit to your needs. Most wanted pull requests are for bug fixes.

Thanks for your understanding and thank you all for your helpful support!

##Changelog

See [Changelog.md](https://github.com/freddessaint/epitome-featured-category/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)