Template:Newseum front page/sandbox

Today's Newseum front page/sandbox front page at the Freedom Forum website

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This is a template to generate a link to a newspaper's current front page at the Newseum website.

Usage

1. Go to http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp to find the newspaper you want.
2. Click on the link to go to the newspaper's page.
3. The page URL should look like
   http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=list&tfp_id=XX_XX&ref_pge=lst
   where the text after "tfp_id= and before &... (if present) will be a code for the specific newspaper.
4. Add to the external links section the text
   {{Newseum front page|XX_XX}}
   replacing XX_XX with the specific newspaper's code.

Example

1. The front page of the Tampa Bay Times is at

   http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_id=FL_TIMES&ref_pge=lst

2. Copy the text after tfp_id=, FL_TIMES, and then use it as the template's main parameter

   {{Newseum front page|FL_TIMES}}

3. The result is

   Today's Tampa Bay Times front page at the Freedom Forum website

Note that the link text between "Today's" and "front page" is the same as the title of the page the template is used on, with any title disambiguation deleted. To use different text for the title, use the parameter name=:

{{Newseum front page|FL_TT|name=Tampa Tribune}}

generates

Today's Tampa Bay Times front page at the Freedom Forum website

See also

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Newseum front page/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
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