Admins wanted the latest headlines to show up on the front page, but didn't want to give up the flexibility of pinning major story in featured spot or pushing smaller item down below the fold..
Stream Manager provides interface for curating feeds of new posts from WordPress Admin.
New posts show up automatically at the top of stream, but content can be added, removed, or repositioned on the page via the editor.
Admins also have the option of pinning post, which will lock it in its current position regardless of new content..
Stream Manager is designed to work with Twig templating plugin Timber, as detailed in the installation instructions.
Add the following to your template file, replacing 'new-stream with the slug of your stream. $context = new TimberStream ..
Streams introduces super useful alternative to that, with API you can hook into to customise the output.
That, associated with the awesomeness to Timber for WP, it's just pure bliss...
It's pretty much at the root of the editorial workflow for all of them, and I just couldn't imagine being without it...
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