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Thank you. Activating the sharing feature in Jetpack has made it so that photos now show up when I paste a blog link into a FaceBook post. That's a good start.
The above links are now old.
For anyone curious, I was able to do this with this tutorial:
http://wpsites.net/web-design/how-to-add-a-2nd-meta-box-for-a-different-featured-image/And here is the result: http://danceworksstudio.com/lessons/introductory/
The only thing I don't currently have working is how to get the alt text for the image working. For some reason when inserting the photo with the above custom field method it doesn't show. Something for another post. But the tutorial was definitely helpful in getting the photo up there.The site has gone live at: http://danceworksstudio.com/
The issue is still there...
For example on the Getting Started image, the image is clickable, and the actual text "Getting Started" is clickable, but the overlay (the background color area of the title) is not clickable. I wish there was a way to make this clickable.
Thank you anitac. This work's well.
And emasai you are correct in that I'd prefer staff to use a more sophisticated way to post, as then they can adjust even more of the default options. But at least now if they don't do it that way, or can't figure it out, and least the video is a good width with just a URL paste.
Thank you both!
Sorry Lynne, I guess I'm not being clear.
I already know how to adjust the link with shortcodes, and how to edit the embed code to change the size.
The issue is I want the staff to be able to just paste a URL. I don't want them to have to do a bunch of things with shortcodes or embed code, it will be too hard for the non-techy staff. My question is.... is there a way that I can preset the default width, so that later with the non-technical staff just pastes a video URL it will default to the preset width that I have set.
Perhaps it is not possible, but if so that's what I'd like to know.
Thanks Lynne for your quick reply.
In this case my post has just the URL. I'm literally just entering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIR49Wa7fZ8
(Hope that comes across) into my post.And what is cool is that it does automatically does the embedding. So somewhere (WP, Genesis, YouTube?) is deciding what size to show it at.
I'm wondering if there's somewhere I can adjust this default. While I can remember to add shortcodes to adjust the size, most of the staff that will do the posting isn't techy, so having a way to adjust this default would be handy.
TeeTide, I had a similar problem. I was able to resolve it by adjusting the priorities.
When the add_action for the menu was too close in priority to the remove_action I had the problem. By assigning the add_action a much later priority (for me 20 worked) I was able to get rid of the second menu. See example.
`//* Reposition the primary navigation menu
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_before', 'genesis_do_nav', 20 );'
Unclear to me why this works, you think if the priority was a just simply a later number it should work. But I offer it in case it helps you.
Hmm... okay created a studiopress password.
An example of a page that I'd like to show a full-width image underneath the menus:
http://development.danceworksstudio.com/lessons-landing-html/lessons-introductory/
user: studiopress; pass: studiopressOur current website will show you an example of the placement of the photo: http://www.danceworksstudio.com/lessons-introductory.html
OK, I think I partially figured this out. In the Metro Pro demo they are using the CSS Classes feature of menu structure to align the first menu item of the secondary menu to "alignleft". And that's how they get their text (which is now a menu) in the top left corner.
So the split/aligning menu feature is cool. But I think this means I can no longer just put a bit of plain text up in that left hand corner. Or is there something I'm missing?