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  • Hi,

    I am looking for a plugin and or method of adding a functionality to a project of mine.

    I’d like to make it so through the dashboard you can add an image, title, and description of a post that will display through a gallery (Using custom post types?). I have been looking for hours now and can’t seem to find a solution.

    Here is an example of what functionality I am looking for.

    Any help is appreciated.. Thanks in advance!

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  • That depends…do you want the lightbox effect? Or do you want the reader to be taken to a specific post when they click on the image/text?

    If they’re going to a specific post, you can just use a custom loop and some custom CSS styling.

    Something like this….

    <?php query_posts('cat=23&posts_per_page=20&paged='.$paged); ?>
          <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
              <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    
     	<div class="video_category_wrapper">
    
        		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img class="video_page_thumb" src="<?php video_thumbnail(); ?>" />
    
        		<?php the_title(); ?></a>
    
        	</div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

    That’s what I used on this page.

    All you’d have to do is add a template tag in the loop for the_excerpt() if that’s what you wanted as a description. Then you could use the manual excerpt box in the post editor screen to create the description text.

    Just a thought. Hopefully that helps a little.

    Thread Starter occams_laser

    (@occams_laser)

    Hey thanks for the response.

    Actually I don’t even need them to go to a specific post. I just want a featured image, a short description, and than a link going to an outbound URL.

    Essentially its a products page for clothing. I would like to have different categories such as Men’s and Woman’s and than sub categories for those. I know this can be done using custom fields but I just don’t know how 🙁

    Let me know if you would know anything about this, once again thanks for the help.

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