Tekserve Single Post Shortcode
There are plenty of plugins to show lists of posts, but if you only want to display a condensed preview of a post on any wp page, this is the plugin for you! The shortcode accepts the numeric id of any post as an attribute, and will display a preview that links to that post. This preview is generate
There are plenty of plugins to show lists of posts, but if you only want to display a condensed preview of a post on any wp page, this is the plugin for you! The shortcode accepts the numeric id of any post as an attribute, and will display a preview that links to that post. This preview is generated with easily styled html. To show or hide the featured image for your single post preview, pass the attribute showimage with either hide or show . It’s pretty easy!
For fun, I decided to also build a widget that does the same thing; it’s included and can be used like any other widget. Why not?!
- 01Upload the tekservesinglepostshortcode folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- 02Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- 03Use the shortcode anywhere you want a condesed preview of a single post, e.g. [single_post id="1" showimage="show"] .
- 04To use the widget, go to Appearance->Widgets and drag the Tekserve Single Post Widget into whatever widget area you’d like. Enter the post id, check the box if you want to show the featured image, and hit save.
Frequently asked questions.
Why would I want to use this?
You want to display a link to a single post with a brief content preview. Plenty of plugins will create this type of object in a list, or as part of popular or related posts, but sometimes you want to manually feature a post somewhere and not mess around with sticky posts or the loop. This simple shortcode does it for you without modifying your theme’s functions.php.
You also get a widget, so there’s that!
How can I style the output?
It’s pretty easy; just add css for the output classes and ids in your style.css for your theme, or enqueue a separate .css file in your theme to handle it.
