How to use the Essential Content Types Pro plugin

@elliottrae: Go to => Appearance => Customize => Widgets => Featured Widget Content => Add a Widget => ECT: Featured Content Type => Done
This way you can setup Featured Content using ECT Feature Content Type.

To choose which posts should be featured
Go to => ECT: Featured Content Type Widget => You will see Include Type and Include Tags option to choose which post you want to show up.
You can choose use the Content type or Content tags to show only particular posts.

There seems to be a design issue with ECT: Feature Content Widget which will be fixed in the next theme update.
For now,
Go to => Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS and add the following CSS Code.

.ect_featured_content {
	width:100% !important;
}

Let me know if this helps you out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

@elliottrae: Let me explain you this.
After activating Essential Content Types Pro plugin.

Go to => Dashboard => Featured Content => Here you can add number of Feature Content post you want.
When you edit a featured content post, at the right hand side of the text editor you will see Content Types and Content Tags Option. You can create a new Content Type or Content Tag to categorize the post you want to show up in your site.

Now, Go to => Appearance => Widgets => Before Content => ECT: Featured Content Type => You will see number of options, on Include Type or Include Tag option type in the type or tag you have categorized your post into so that only those posts show up on your site.

Let me know if this makes sense to you and helps you out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

@elliottrae: You will also need to
Go to => Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Enable on Feature Content => Then select Content Type as Widget.

Now the featured content widget should show up in widget area you put it.
Let me know if this works out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

@elliottrae:
1. To put “Latest Posts” as title above Latest Posts
Copy content.php file from you parent theme folder to your child theme folder.
Now, edit the file and add the following code after <div class="archive-post-wrap">
<h2 class="section-title">Latest Posts/h2>

2. To reduce the number of latest posts to 4
Go to => Dashboard => Settings => Reading => Blog pages show at most => Select 4

3. I’m afraid a lot of customization is need to bring the primary sidebar alongside the Featured Posts. If you really need this I suggest you to hire a customizer.

Let me know if this helps you out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

@elliottrae: What you can do is Go to => Child Theme Folder => functions.php and add the following Code

function clean_magazine_main_start() {
	if( is_home() ) {
		?><h2 class="section-title">Latest Posts</h2><?php
	        return; 
	}
	?>
	<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
	<?php
}

This should insert Latest Posts title above your posts.
Let me know if this works out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha