Once you've installed Teaser Maker, you can launch it (from the WordPress\nAdmin Section), by clicking the \"Teaser Maker Std vX.Y.Z\" link on the left\nmenu.<\/p>","2":"
The \"Std\" version of Teaser Maker It allows you to create a single page of\nteasers (though that page may contain an unlimited number of teasers).<\/p>\n\n
To start adding\/editing teasers, just click \"Teasers\".<\/p>","3":"
The \"Add Teaser\" screen\/form is pretty simple and straightforward. With\nhelp notes beside each field to guide you.<\/p>\n\n
Just enter the required information; then press \"Submit\". Or press \"Cancel\"\nto return to the \"Manage Teasers\" screen.<\/p>\n\n
With most teasers you'll just copy\/paste the following info. from the\nexternal (or internal) page the teaser points to:-<\/p>\n\n
The page\/posts URL into the \"Original URL\" field.<\/p><\/li><\/ul>","4":"
The page\/posts TITLE into the \"Title\" field.<\/p>","5":"
Either your own description of the page\/post - or perhaps the page\/posts\nfirst (introductory) paragraph of text - into the \"Text\" field.<\/p>","6":"
The URL of any (optional) teaser image you want to display (into the\n\"Original Image URL\" field).<\/p>","7":"
You can obviously \"hot-link\" to an image from the page\/post the teaser\npoints to. But this ISN'T generally a good idea (since hot-linking to\ncontent of other people's sites is generally frowned upon on the\nInternet). So a better solution is probably to copy the image into\nyou're own site's Media Library. And serve it from there.<\/p>","8":"
The \"Text Format\" field gives you some options as regards adding\nformatting and links to the text. See the online \"help\" links for the\n\"Markdown\" and \"BBCode\" options.<\/p>","9":"
You can use the \"Sequence Number\" field to control the order in which\nthe teasers are listed. It works like the \"Order\" field of WordPress\nPages and Posts. In other words; you're supposed to enter a number into\nthis field (eg; 10, 20, 30, ...). And the teasers are listed in\nascending order of the numbers (smallest to biggest).<\/p>","10":"
The \"Edit Teaser\" form is just like the \"Add Teaser\" form. Except that\nit's pre-loaded with the selected teasers details.<\/p>","11":"
To display the teasers you created, just create a normal WordPress Page (or\nPost) and place the [teaser-maker]<\/strong> shortcode in it.<\/p>\n\n You can add other page\/post content before and\/or after the\n[teaser-maker]<\/strong> shortcode if you want. An introduction before, for\nexample.<\/p>","12":" Once you've published the new teasers page\/post (and perhaps added it to the\nfront-end menus etc, as required), it should appear in the front-end as\nsuggested by this example.<\/p>","13":" Here's a single teaser from the example page (and for the \"Std\" version of\nTeaser Maker).<\/p>\n\n NOTES<\/p>\n\n The image, title, text and \"read more\" link are listed vertically down\nthe page.<\/p><\/li><\/ol>","14":" The exact way each teaser appears will be influenced by the site's\nlayout and CSS (= theme).<\/p>\n\n We've tried to create a default layout that will work with most themes.<\/p>\n\n But if the teasers just don't look right with your theme, the \"Pro\"\nversion of Teaser Maker allows you to completely customise\/replace the\nteaser HTML, CSS and Javascript.<\/p>"}},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[1395,170,86],"plugin_category":[],"plugin_contributors":[95158],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-30090","plugin","type-plugin","status-closed","hentry","plugin_tags-excerpt","plugin_tags-page","plugin_tags-post","plugin_contributors-ferntechnology","plugin_committers-ferntechnology"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/teaser-maker-standard.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/teaser-maker-standard\/assets\/screenshot-1.jpeg?rev=951333","caption":" Once you've installed Teaser Maker, you can launch it (from the WordPress\nAdmin Section), by clicking the \"Teaser Maker Std vX.Y.Z\" link on the left\nmenu.<\/p>"},{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/teaser-maker-standard\/assets\/screenshot-2.jpeg?rev=951333","caption":" The \"Std\" version of Teaser Maker It allows you to create a single page of\nteasers (though that page may contain an unlimited number of teasers).<\/p>\n\n To start adding\/editing teasers, just click \"Teasers\".<\/p>"},{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/teaser-maker-standard\/assets\/screenshot-3.jpeg?rev=951333","caption":" The \"Add Teaser\" screen\/form is pretty simple and straightforward. 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But this ISN'T generally a good idea (since hot-linking to\ncontent of other people's sites is generally frowned upon on the\nInternet). So a better solution is probably to copy the image into\nyou're own site's Media Library. And serve it from there.<\/p>"}],"raw_content":"\n \"Teaser Maker\" is a tool for creating, managing and displaying \"teasers\"<\/strong> on a\nWordPress site.<\/p>\n\n Where \"Teasers\" are a very common trick (used by many large and small sites), to\nbuild both content and traffic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Sole bloggers have the problem that it's almost impossible for a single person\nto create sufficient new content to keep users returning on a regular basis.\nEven one interesting post per week can be a major challenge.<\/p>\n\n But a very effective solution is simply to add links to related content from\nother sites. It's quick and easy to do. And users don't care that the content\nitself is off-site. The fact that you've collected links to the content of\ninterest to them (in one convenient location), is what matters.<\/p>\n\n Many well-known sites use this technique. And there are typically 5 to 100\nteasers for each original article\/post. In other words, it's not unusual for\nthe bulk of the site's content to be externally sourced.<\/p>\n\n Many well-known sites (that perhaps employ 100s if not 1000s of paid writers),\nalso make extensive use of teasers - in the form of \"Best of\" pages. About.com\nfor example, uses \"Best of\" pages a lot.<\/p>\n\n \"Best of\" pages are easy to create. And users just love clicking links like\n(eg):-<\/p>\n\n So Teasers can help both small and large sites to build up both content and traffic.<\/p>\n\n Each teaser typically has:-<\/p>\n\n (though most of these components are optional).<\/p>\n\n And teasers are typically listed (like WordPress Posts), on pages containing one or more teasers - with perhaps some ordinary page content before and after the teasers. An introduction before and\/or comments section after, for example.<\/p>\n\n Teasers look<\/strong> very much like WordPress Posts. But there's a significant\ndifference:-<\/p>\n\n Clicking a TEASER<\/strong>'s title or read more link takes the user to the external\n(or internal) page that the teaser points to<\/strong>. Whereas;<\/p><\/li>\n Clicking a POST<\/strong>'s title or read more link takes the user to the single\npost page<\/strong> for the post concerned,<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n Log into the WordPress Admin Section.<\/p><\/li>\n Click the \"Teaser Maker Std vX.X.X\" link on the Left Menu.<\/p><\/li>\n Click \"Teasers\".<\/p><\/li>\n Click \"Add Teaser to to create a new teaser - or the \"edit\" link in the\nAction column to edit an existing teaser.<\/p><\/li>\n Fill in or edit and Submit the form. Each field has some help notes to\nguide you.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n Log into the WordPress Admin Section.<\/p><\/li>\n From the WordPress \"Pages\" screen, Add a new WordPress page.<\/p><\/li>\n Add the [teaser-maker] shortcode<\/strong> to the page (where you want the teasers to\nbe displayed). You may put other page content (text and\/or images, etc),\nboth before and after the shortcode. An introduction to the teasers that\nfollow, for example.<\/p><\/li>\n \"Publish\" or \"Update\" the page.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n The Teaser Maker \"Std\" version is available for FREE download from the\nWordPress.org Plugins Directory: https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/<\/p>\n\n The \"Std\" version:-<\/p>\n\n Allows you to create a single page of Teasers (with no limit to the number\nof teasers on that page).<\/p><\/li>\n Supports one non-customisable teaser layout (image, title, text and read\nmore link, listed vertically down the page).<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n The Teaser Maker \"Pro\" version is a paid plugin available from:\nhttp:\/\/www.ferntechnology.com<\/p>\n\n It does everything the \"Std\" version does plus:-<\/p>\n\n Allows you to create as many teaser pages as you want<\/strong> (with an unlimited\namount of teasers on each page).<\/p><\/li>\n Supports two standard teaser layouts<\/strong>:-<\/p>\n\n \"ALL DOWN THE PAGE\"<\/strong>. Image, Title, Text and Read More link listed\nvertically down the page (in that order). (Same as \"Std\" version.)<\/p><\/li>\n \"IMAGE FLOATED RIGHT\"<\/strong>. Image floated right, with Title, Text and\nRead More link listed vertically down the page (in that order).<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n Allows you to clone<\/strong> and then customise<\/strong> these standard teaser\nlayouts<\/strong> (and\/or any custom teaser layout). To adapt it to your site's\ntheme, for example.<\/p><\/li>\n Allows you to create unlimited custom teaser layouts<\/strong>. Each custom\nlayout can contain whatever HTML, CSS and Javascript you want. With the\nteaser title, text and target\/image URLs, etc, inserted into your HTML, CSS\nand Javascript by means of template tags like (eg):<\/p>\n\n Allows you to export and import<\/strong> any teaser category (including the\nteasers that belong to it, and their images).<\/p>\n\n This allows you to backup your teasers. And also to develop teaser pages on\none site (say a test\/dev site on localhost), and then move or copy them to\nanother (say the live site).<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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