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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:
uploaded using the normal item edit forms
bound by the same 100K file size limits as Image Items
bound by the same 400x400 pixel size limits as Image items
square, so until we develop a thumbnail system, use square images for best results
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:

Writing.Com Stuff!  

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:

(I used the recently added image scaling to the WritingML above to use less page space with the example.)

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.