Ok, this is odd.
I modified my original template, described in a preceding question here, in an attempt to make the entire excerpt itself be linked to the related blog post. I've been trying this for quite a while now. My latest version is shown below (just the relevant portion).
The very weird thing is, when I first start the "new message" using this template, in the visual designer the body of the excerpt is a hyperlink as I intended, but then when I save the message in order to send it, the body of the excerpt is NOT hyperlinked in the html, only the blog title is. How can that be?
- Tim
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here's the relevant portion of the template code
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<table width="90%">
<?php
foreach ($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$image = nt_post_image(get_the_ID());
?>
<tr align="left">
<td>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#456;font-size:20px;line-height:22px;margin:0;padding:0">
" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" align="right" alt="" border="0">
" style="color:#456;text-decoration:none;align:center" target="_blank"><?php the_title(); ?>
" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none;align:center" target="_blank"><?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>