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.
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.