link post format in suits
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Dear WP,
Can’t get link post format to work in Suits theme.
When I click on the heading, I’m taken to the post and not to the location of the first link in the post which is the expected behaviour.
Please advise.
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That’s actually not the expected behavior. A heading for a link post format in the Suits theme will still link to the post itself.
You can see that working as expected on the demo site for the “Learn WordPress” post:
http://suitsdemo.wordpress.com/What made you think that the expected behavior of a link post format would be to go to the link when the post title is clicked?
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In alternative post formats, Panos wrote:
Link: Designed to work as an external link: if the post includes a link to a webpage, the title of the post will link to that webpage. (If the post includes more than one link, the first one will be used.)
Supported in: Chunk, Dusk to Dawn, Duster, Esquire, Fruit Shake, Manifest, Next Saturday, Pink Touch 2, Quintus, Skeptical, Spectrum, Twenty Eleven, Vertigo.
I thought this was the default behaviour for all themes that support the link post format. I was hoping you could make Suits do the same: ie, when someone clicks on the title, it takes him/her to the location of the first link in the post and not to the page containing the post.
Suits is a great theme and I’d really like to use it, but I need the link post format to behave as described above because of my blog content.
Please help!
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I thought this was the default behaviour for all themes that support the link post format.
It’s not the default behavior. It’s a theme design decision made by the theme author when the theme is created.
Suits is a great theme and I’d really like to use it, but I need the link post format to behave as described above because of my blog content.
Each theme can be unique, and it is up to the theme designer to decide what features it supports.
I can put in a request to see if the link post format behavior can be changed for the Suits theme, but there is no guarantee that is a change the developers are willing to make. Often, it’s best not to change established themes because people who are already using them would suddenly have the features in them change. We make updates sometimes, but it’s usually rare.
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Hi DS,
Yes, please put in a request with the developers of Suits. Point them to this thread and Panos’s article. It’s worth a try!
Thanks!
– SB
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Howdy @spongebelly!
Thanks for your feedback. Newer themes typically won’t do this; most will link directly to the single post rather than the link itself. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I hope this clarifies.
Cheers,
Caroline -
Hi Caroline,
Thanks for replying, but it sounds like you’re saying no to my request. :-(
I would argue that linking the post title to the first link found in the post would enhance the link post format in Suits, and not radically change it. And how is the link post format significantly different from any other post format without this functionality?
Oh, go on. At least think it over. If you do a favour for an Irishman on St Patrick’s Day, he can’t refuse when you ask him later for a creel of salmon… or so they say. ;-)
Btw, add Twenty Twelve and Singl to Panos’s list above. And I’m pretty sure there are others.
– SB
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What would be the point of putting more than one link on the Link page then? I’m not understanding this.
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Hi RC,
Follow the link to my blog in the OP and you’ll see what I mean. I’ve decided to use Twenty Twelve because it fits so well with the needs I have for this blog. I’m still prepopulating it with jokes before it goes live.
For instance, if you click on the Martial Arts Movie Quotes heading on the front page, you’ll be taken to the Ninja Burger website. Whereas clicking on the Irish Citizenship Test heading will take you to page 2 of a multipage post.
Why force visitors to my blog to read the same introductory text on the post page that they just read on the front page? I know what you’re thinking: excerpts by other means.
But I think this use of the link post format is better because excerpts can be bypassed by using the Next and Previous Post links at the bottom of every post.
I also like that there are no annoying “Pages: 1 2” links anywhere and I can have a different title at the top of every page of a multipage post. I have to add all that manually, but I don’t mind because it gives me greater flexibility.
My only gripe is that categories and tags are not displayed in link posts in Twenty Twelve, so I’ve had to learn to live without them.
– SB
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