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I know that I can add a Recent Posts widget into a sidebar, but that only adds a list of all post titles, which then link to the post. I would like to add that list, and in addition to the post title, I'd like to display a link to an external PDF. For example, I'd like the list to look like this -
Post #1 Title
(potentially a brief phrase of explanation)
Click for More (this links directly to the PDF)
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Post #2 Title
(potentially a brief phrase of explanation)
Click for More (this links directly to another PDF)etc. Is this possible?
Try the Genesis featured posts widget and use the WordPress Excerpts meta box to add your explanation and link.
I hate to miss really obvious ones like that, but THANK YOU! Of course that works. Now I have a follow-on question:
Check the page at http://www.ubymca.org/WP-Y and see that I am using the featured posts widget to list headlines from a group of posts with the category "whats-new". I would love to be able to have this list do one of the following:
* have the link on the headline not link to the individual post but rather to the link that is shown on the individual post
* have the headline display a link underneath so that the reader can just go directly to the linked site/pdf instead of having to cycle through the post itself. When I try to put that link in the body of the post, the link only works on the post itself, not in this list - apparently the HTML for the anchor tag is stripped out and so it only displays the link text without the anchor tag.(don't worry about the format of the individual posts - it's under development)
I reckon that the second wish on my wish list is the better one because I don't think I can specify any target link for each individual headline...
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