![]() You don’t actually need to know anything about software development. The page you want to display when someone clicks on your custom tab.ĭon’t be alarmed by this.These instructions assume you’ve already set up: This means you can create a custom tab for a new release, one for your fiction, one for a sale, etc. You can add multiple custom tabs to a page. When you click on that tab, the content you specify will be displayed in the middle of the page – to the right of the sidebar, and below your cover photo and the Like, Follow, etc. In this image, you can see a custom tab named “Bundles” at the bottom of the left sidebar on a Facebook page. Link to a book landing page, link to a page of cat videos…the sky’s the limit. ![]() You can do all kinds of things with a custom tab on a Facebook page. Jetpack provides detailed instructions on how to modify your WordPress theme on their site. Most of these changes require modifying your WordPress theme, so make sure you’re comfortable with that (and that you’ve backed up your site!) before proceeding. You can customize what image is displayed, how the image is resized, change the “Related” header text, modify how many related posts are displayed, and a number of other things. Here are examples of how the different permutations will look. Note: When I turn ‘Show a “Related” header’ on, that actually turns it off – although it correctly displays in the preview while you’re configuring Jetpack. (This will display an image from each related post.) Use a large and visually striking layout.Show a “Related” header to more clearly separate the related section from posts.There are two configuration options listed: Under Related posts, turn on “Show related content after posts”.In the administrative section of your WordPress site: Note that if the contextual analysis doesn’t come up with at least three good results, no related posts will be displayed. The image will be resized and cropped to be 350x200px. If you’ve set a featured image for a post, that’s what will display when it’s listed as a related post otherwise, an image attached to the post will be used. The Related Posts feature analyzes previous posts you’ve published on your site, then underneath each individual post it displays links to three other posts that are related to your current post. If you’re hosting your site on, you already have these features if you’re hosting your site somewhere, you will need to install the Jetpack plugin (which is free). Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that packages a number of features that are provided to people whose sites are hosted on. I’ve chosen to not display the full posts in order to have more of my posts appear on the screen, but either option is fine. If you don’t select this, readers will only see the first part of your post, and will have to expand to view the complete text. There will be one option: “Show full post.” Select this if you want the complete text of each post to display on Goodreads.The URL to your blog’s feed may be in a different format depending on how your website is set up. On the right-hand side there’s an option to set an “External blog feed URL.” This is where you’ll post the link to your blog’s feed (i.e. You want to link to your existing blog, so ignore the Title and Description fields. The “Editing Your Blog” page is displayed.On the right-hand side of the screen, click on the “edit blog” link.Log in to your Goodreads author account, and edit your author profile.How to link your blog to your author profile Here’s what the reader will see if they click on the name of your blog, which appears in between your biography and your blog posts on your author profile. Note: If you’re interested in how I got the social media buttons to display at the top of my bio, instructions are in this post:Īdding social media buttons to your Goodreads author profile Your blog posts will be displayed underneath the biography section on your author profile page. If, however, you do have or plan to have your own website, it’s very quick and easy to link your blog to your author profile on Goodreads. If you don’t have an author website, and don’t plan to have one, option #2 may be for you. Create a blog on Goodreads as part of your author profile.Link your existing blog to your author profile.There are two options for displaying your blog on Goodreads.
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