[Support request] Help With Featured First Post

[Jeff]

Hi

My first post at https://crazyoverdogs.com/blog/ is a featured post, but I want to insert a graphic ( https://crazyoverdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Todays-Deals-final-1.jpg) here instead. Then link it directly to the vendor’s website through an affiliate link from the main blog page at https://crazyoverdogs.com/blog/ and not to a post and then to the vendor’s website. Is this possible?

Hope I have explained this correctly.

Jeff

[David]

Hi there,

so what happens to the Featured Post ? Is that still displayed but below this ‘banner’ image?

[Jeff]

David

If you go to https://crazyoverdogs.com/blog/ I have now set up the graphic which is a featured post. It’s easier to show you.

If you click on the graphic it should take you to https://crazyoverdogs.com/save-money-on-todays-deals-for-dog-products/, which now features the featured image and the graphic below which has an affiliate link.

Visitors therefore have to click twice to get to the vendors ” Todays Deals”. I was wanting the graphic with the affiliate link to be incorporated into the graphic on the blog page at https://crazyoverdogs.com/blog/. This would avoid them clicking twice to get to the vendor’s “Deals Page”.

In addition, the page at https://crazyoverdogs.com/save-money-on-todays-deals-for-dog-products/, with two similar graphics is not appealing.

I hope I have made this clearer and I hope you can help me

Jeff

[Ying]

Hi Jeff,

I still don’t understand well about what you are trying to achieve?

Are you trying to insert the Today’s deal image with a link before the featured post on blog page?

If so, a block element should be what you are looking for:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/block-element-page-hero/

You can add the image with a link to the block element, selectpage hero as element type, choose blogas location.

Then the image should be showing between the featured post and the header.

Let me know if I miss anything.

[Jeff]

Hi Ying

Thank you kindly for your valued reply. I am having problems loading the correct size of image. Can you please clarify what recommended size should the page hero image be.

Many thanks

Jeff

[David]

Your content container is 1200px wide, so that would be best width to set your image.
In the Block Element i would do this:

1. Add a GenerateBlocks Container Block – by default it should have a 1200px inner width and no padding – just make sure thats the case.
2. Add an Image Block inside it. Then you can add a Link to the image block.

[Jeff]

David

Sincere thanks for clarifying my questions. That seems to have sorted it.

Kind regards

Jeff

[David]

Glad to hear that!

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