Featured Links
The Featured toggle highlights a link on the bio page with a subtle animation, drawing the visitor’s eye to it without hiding or moving other links. Use it for your main call to action, a time-limited offer, or anything you want to stand out from the rest of the list.
Turning on Featured#
- Find the link in the bio page editor
- Click the star icon in the link’s toolbar
- The star fills in to show the link is featured
- Save the bio page
Click the star again to remove the featured state. Any number of links on the same bio page can be featured simultaneously.
What it looks like#
The visual effect depends on the link style:
Button, Embed, Shortcode — a subtle diagonal light sweep animates across the surface of the link every few seconds. It draws the eye gently without jumping or shaking.
Enhanced Link (card) and Media — the same light sweep plays, plus a soft pulsing outer glow in the theme’s accent colour radiates from the edges of the card at a 2.4-second interval.
Vidstack player — the sweep animation plays across the player wrapper.
Reduced motion#
WP LinkCanvas respects the visitor’s operating system preference for reduced motion (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce). On devices where reduced motion is enabled:
- Both the sweep animation and the pulse glow are disabled
- The featured link instead receives a solid accent-coloured outline so the highlight is still visible, just without movement
This applies automatically — no configuration needed.
Featured vs other highlight methods#
The Featured toggle is purely visual — it does not change the link’s position in the list, its click behaviour, or any other setting. To promote a link to the top of the list, drag it there using the reorder handle.
Featured can be combined with scheduling to create a highlighted link that only appears during a promotion window, and with geo targeting to show the featured highlight only in specific countries.