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#767864 added December 7, 2012 at 4:07am
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Introducing: Cover Images [Beta]
Greetings and Happy Holidays!

We're opening up a new feature for public beta testing. It's called a Cover Image and it's about to make Writing.Com portfolios a lot more interesting.

Each item type on Writing.Com can now be given a Cover Image which will then be shown by the item's title... instead of the standard Itemicons, like and . They're are shown in your portfolio and at the top of the item where the title and other 'heading' information is.

Cover Images are:
*Bullet* uploaded using the normal item edit forms
*Bullet* bound by the same 100K file size limits as Image Items
*Bullet* bound by the same 400x400 pixel size limits as Image items
*Bullet* square, so until we develop a thumbnail system, use square images for best results
*Bullet* reserved for members with an Upgraded Membership or above, just like Images

Covers are shown on c-item, b-item and other links automatically. In addition, the new WritingML tag {cov-item:} allows you to produce a link showing the cover image, for example:




And, super handy is that covers can be shared and shown with the standard {image:} WritingML tag! Anyone clicking the image is automatically brought to the item itself. For example, {image:186338-40%} will show:

My folder for Writing.Com Stuff!
(I used the recently added image scaling to the WritingML above to use less page space with the example.) *Wink*



We're releasing this to the site at this time as a Beta feature. That means we're still testing it, defining it, figuring up the documentation, etc -- but we'd still like to see you use it and hear your opinions on it.


Have fun and thanks in advance for your feedback!
~~SM

PS: Image Items can't have separate covers. The cover is the image itself.

PPS: Again, please note that this is an Upgraded Membership and above feature only.
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