id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
9260	Article Leads/Post teasers	janeforshort	anonymous	"Create hooks to make it easier for themes to give users a quick way to make an article lead on their home page (headline, optional byline/date, thumbnail image, first few sentences). Would be ideal it was set up so that themes/users could create multiple lead types, like one with a larger image and excerpt for a main promo, and smaller images/excerpts for the longer lists of content below. Common to magazine-type sites, news sites, and useful for many other types of blog that want to tease content on the home page rather than using the default post stream. 

User creation of lead/teaser would happen on the New Post screen. 

"	feature request	closed	normal		Template	2.8	normal	wontfix	needs-patch