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1.3 KiB
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title: "Thumbnails"
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date: 2022-09-26
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draft: false
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description: "Turn on thumbnails for your articles."
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slug: "thumbnail_sample"
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tags: ["thumbnail", "sample"]
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summary: "A quick example of how to start using Thumbnails in your artciles."
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type: 'sample'
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---
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A quick example of how to start using Thumbnails in your articles.
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If your average directory for an article looks like this:
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```shell
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content
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└── awesome_article.md
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```
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You need to change it from a single markdown file into a folder. Create a directory with the same name of the article, inside create a `index.md` file. You'll get a structure similar to what's below.
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```shell
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content
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└── awesome_article
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└── featured.png
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```
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Inside the article you can now add an image file (almost all formats are supported but we recommend `.png` or `.jpg`) that starts with `feature*`. Example below.
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```shell
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content
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└── awesome_article
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├── index.md
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└── featured.png
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```
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This will tell Blowfish that this article has a feature image that can be used both as a thumbnail across your website as well as for <a target="_blank" href="https://oembed.com/">oEmbed</a> cards across social platforms. As an example, you can try copy pasting the URL of this article into a platform that shows oEmbeds (e.g. Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc) and see what is displayed.
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