On some pages I would like to show the featured image of another page, with the option to to click through to that other page.
I could do this by simply inserting a copy of a featured image / creating a hyperlink.
Or I could create a dummy parent page to (for the parent_id parameter in the show posts shortcode) with a redirect* page as the child page.
This would mean 2 extra pages being created.
What would be simpler and neater would be an improvement to the “show posts” short code so that it shows 1 page only. e.g. use a new page_id= parameter.
parent_id=”n” would work as now, showing child pages.
page_id=”n” would just show the single page referred to.
Is this feasible / something you could add to your release plan?
*The redirect plug-in can be used to redirect a dummy or alias page to a real page.