There are many tutorials out there about adding a feature box to Thesis, but they all have one fatal flaw: they tell you to use a “Featured” category. This seems innocuous enough, but it causes unwanted results for my clients: they now have a category that shows up in widgets and other areas of the blog. In this tutorial, I will show you how to implement the feature box by using custom fields.
First, we will need to set up the code for the feature box. You do this by going to your WordPress admin area and selecting “Thesis” >> “Custom File Editor”. Once there, select “custom_functions.php” from the dropbox near the top of the page, just above the text area. Then click the “Edit Selected File” button just to the right. Now, copy the following code and paste it into your text area below everything already there:
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