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Hello,
I want to create a page on my wordpress.com blog (http://the-shooting-star.com/) to feature certain posts. Instead of just hyperlinking the URL, is it possible to display the post with a title, description & thumbnail - something like what appears when a link is shared on Facebook?
Thanks in advance for the help.
The blog I need help with is the-shooting-star.com.
There is no automatic way to do this. You will have to create such a page and enter the content you want on it manually and/or by copying and pasting.
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Best wishes with your blog.
I did search those forums before posting the question here. Guess it can't be done. Thanks anyway.
It can certainly be done manually.
It can only be hyperlinked manually, right? Not with a thumbnail, title, short description and frame around it (like a link shared on Facebook). Or can it?
Sure it can. Just depends on your coding skills or your ability to format things in the visual editor. Put it in a block quotation, then insert the image from your media library, selecting Thumbnail size, type in the description, and there you go.
As two members already said, it –all of it– can be done manually. But to do it you have to be an experienced coder. Example here:
http://panosdemos.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/post-index-example/
Thanks Justpi, that's exactly what I was looking to do. Do you think you could share the code with me please? I'm nowhere close to being an experienced coder. Really appreciate the help again :)
I don't understand, however, why you'd want to make a hand-built index look machine-made. Readers are going to click on something that looks like YOU wrote it. They don't care so much what robots write.
@raincoaster - I'm just trying to make it easy for readers to find posts under a certain topic, by compiling them on one page. It looks much more appealing with the snippet than just hyperlinking it to text.
Sure, but think of it as writing your own marketing copy. It's a chance you don't have in the Top Posts widget. Write a commercial for your post.
For each box you need something like this:*
shivya
timethief
<div style="border:1px solid #456789;padding:12px;margin-bottom:16px;">
<a href="POST URL HERE"><img style="width:100px;float:left;margin:0 12px 0 0;" src="IMAGE URL HERE" alt="" /></a><a href="POST URL HERE">POST TITLE HERE</a>
TEXT HERE [...]<br style="clear:both;" />
</div>You can change the values of the following:
#456789 (frame color)
margin-bottom:16px (space below the frame)
width:100px (image size)
* Might need further changes or additions: I can't test things in the theme you're using, as it's a premium one.
Thanks @justpi , I'll try this out & see if I need any changes!
You're welcome!
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