Pasting Posts as Visual Links on Pages
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I have a food blog with recipes; the way that I organize these recipes is by having a menu with different categories, lunch, dinner etc., then on the ‘lunch’ page for example, I paste the links to my specific recipe posts in alphabetical order and this acts as my recipe navigation. Previously, when pasting a recipe URL, it would show up as a little preview with the photo and text in a rectangular box that could be clicked. Now, when I paste my recipe URL, it simply pastes as text. How to I continue to add to my recipe navigation like the previous entries? This only became a problem after my ‘Twenty Sixteen’ theme updated. Here is an example of a page with the links how I want them, I just don’t know how to re-create them now since it used to do it for me:
http://www.stealthfood.com/breakfast/
I am new to wordpress and could use any help. Thanks!
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page and this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/dyad/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://dyaddemo.wordpress.com/
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.
You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
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Additional information:
We also have a recipe shortcode you can use.
[recipe] formats a recipe with basic metadata and an option to print. » Full instructions are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/recipes/ -
Thanks very much for all the info, however all I want to do is re-create these visual links that show an image and preview of text..How do I do so? The link used to be created just by pasting a link to a post on a main page, now it doesn’t do that anymore but the old ones are still there and still active. thanks.
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Hi Louisa-
The functionality that turns links into the “cards” are called embeds ( https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds ). So in your case, it appears you are embedding links to other pages on your site – at least that is what I’m seeing at http://www.stealthfood.com/breakfast/If the embeds are not automatically creating themselves, you can try using the shortcode:
[embed width="123" height="456"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ[/embed]Since your site is self hosted, I’m not able to really log in and try to troubleshoot further.
Hope the shortcode helps!
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I really appreciate the help thanks! Unfortunately this trick didn’t work..It says that it failed to embed, and then when I preview the page it lists my link as a normal hyperlink, not as an embed like the other posts on the page. This is so frustrating I don’t know why it’s not working anymore :(
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Did you enter the shortcode provided above https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pasting-posts-as-visual-links-on-pages?replies=6#post-2849438 without changing anything at all in it?
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Strange that the embeds are working on one page and not another too. What version of WordPress is your site running? You mentioned you recently updated your theme too?
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