Post Thumbnail is a theme feature introduced with Version 2.9. Thumbnail is an image that is chosen as the representative image for Posts, Pages or Custom Post Types.
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Display thumbnail only if requested size exists
When I use the functions that get and output the post thumbnail, they will display the requested thumbnail in the size you specify, but if this size doesn't exist they will display the thumbnail in ...
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Double thumbnails?
is it possible to use the thumbnail mechanic twice? I find the thumbnail API really useful for allowing users to place in there own graphics, so that I can control size and position easily. All they ...
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Set Featured Image for Archive templates
I'm want to set a featured image for the archive templates of my theme. To my knowledge, there is not a way to do so in the WordPress Admin (like Pages and Posts).
I was thinking about writing a ...
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How to add a 2nd “featured image” to a post?
My theme has a slider widget that allows the end user to select a category and it assigns the posts in that category to the slider. If a post has a featured image, its used as the background of the ...
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Featured image with the same height thumbs returns wrong thumb
I have 2 sizes thumbs for featured images with the same height:
300 x 200
540 x 200
I've checked the uploads folder and both thumbs with different sizes appear correctly:
file_name-300x200.jpg
...
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Custom post type thumbnail / Media Library WP_DEBUG notice [closed]
My custom post type thumbnail appears to be working correctly.
However, when I return to edit one of my species profiles (in the Admin area, not talking about the front-end here), the following text ...
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can the_excerpt function also get images?
Not sure if im going about this in the right way but, overall, ive been told to create, kind of like a news box on my home page and so, the "latest news" is going to be this clients posts.
now i know ...
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How to handle thumbnails
How should I handle post thumbnails? Do most people put them in custom fields? Use a plugin? How do themes on ThemeForest handle this?
Also different theme will have different size requirements? So ...
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Featured Image of Video from oembed
For Wordpress, I want to auto generate thumb of the video embedded on a page using oembed? And then save it as a featured image of the post.
Any idea how to do this?
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Get first image in a post
I am using this code directly from the codex.
function echo_first_image ($postID)
{
$args = array(
'numberposts' => 1,
'order'=> 'ASC',
'post_mime_type' ...
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Set Featured Image programmatically (in admin) with JavaScript?
I'm trying to set the post thumbnail (featured image) with javascript from an existing image in the media gallery. I would consider a php-based option too I suppose (one that would require clicking ...
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Showing a placeholder/default img, if no featured image is set
I need to modify the following code to show a placeholder if there is no featured image available.
I understand that I need to add a if statement in the following code but wasn't sure of the exact ...
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Displaying Child pages of the current page in post format and their thumbnails (featured image)?
I'm using the following code I got from the Wordpress codex:
<?php // Displaying Child pages of the current page in post format
$mypages = ...
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Convert uploaded PNG to JPEG automatically
Is there a way to convert automatically uploaded PNGs to JPEGs and keep the original? In other words, let the user upload a PNG, but show in wordpress (thumbnails, large, medium, etc) the JPEG version ...
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Add a featured image in my theme?
I'd like to add a Featured image to a default article or a Custom Type Post in my theme but I don't get the area of the highlight image, why? In the default theme the option is present but not in my ...
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Check for featured image in WP_Query
Is there a way to filter posts by featured image when initialising a WP_Query object?
Example
$my_query = WP_Query(array("has_thumbnail"=>true));
or, more ideally
$my_query = ...
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get_the_post_thumbnail() doesn't taking style attribute
This seems to be an easy one but its giving me quite a hard time. get_the_post_thumbnail() suppose to take attribute as an array. Well, everything working right but when i pass style attr its doesn't ...
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Best way to filter featured image text for a custom post type?
I am trying to change the "Set featured image", "Remove featured image", and "Use as featured image" text links of a custom post type for my plugin Meteor Slides.
I found the ...
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Setting featured image with function, 1 part not working
I'm trying to set a post's featured image based on custom fields. There are different types of posts and therefore the featured image should be set depending on which custom fields have been filled ...
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Resizing Images to lower Disk Space Using Plugins
I'm trying to take existing images and shrink the file size down by resizing to photos to a smaller resolution. I've tried a few methods so far:
Simply editing the photo in photoshop and reuploaded, ...
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Adding a custom field or metabox to the post-thumbnail widget?
Is it possible to add a custom field to an existing "widget" in the backend?
What I wanna do is provide a way to have a checkbox to apply a thumbnail that is double the size of the normal one on the ...
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How to change the height of featured image in Twenty Eleven child theme
I am trying to change the height of my featured image to 350px in my child theme for Twenty Eleven.
Can anyone help??
Note: I am using Twenty Eleven and there is no functions.php file in my child ...
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Why are extra 92 pixel square thumbnails created?
Disabling this WordPress feature which automatically generates various sizes of an uploaded image, is normally as simple as going to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Media screen and changing all ...
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Change Output for Images in Content
I want to wrap some html (divs and classes) around the tag (to create the appearance of photo corners by way of an image sprite).
Basically, I want to re-write all tags added by WP in the content ...
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Featured Image Panel Missing From Custom Post Type in Wordpress 3.2
Upgraded to 3.2 from 3.1 and lost the featured image panel in admin that was running in a custom post type.
add_action( 'init', 'create_my_post_types' );
function create_my_post_types() {
...
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Programatically creating image attachments from local URLs and setting featured image
I'm currently working on importing an MovableType blog into WordPress. The blog has several thousand posts, and each post has an image associated with it.
The export file contains references to each ...
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Getting Thumbnail Path rather than Image Tag
I see many methods of showing thumbnails in WordPress, but I'm not immediately sure how I could get only the path to a post's thumbnail rather than the html-ready code generated by functions like ...
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How to scale up post thumbnails/featured image?
Is there a way to scale up post thumbnails on Wordpress?
On a featured div I want a post thumbnail/featured image with 584×348 px. When I upload a smaller image as a featured image on a post, it ...
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User facing form to upload image on wordpress
I have a client who bought a wordpress theme that is built for posting job listings, a user can create an account and then post job listings but my client wants it converted to post Wheel listings ...
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How to change post thumbnail title and alt attributes to post title?
Can we change the title and alt attributes of the_post_thumbnails and set them to post title instead ? like creating a function for it and adding a filter ? I tried searching but I can't seem to find ...
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Cropped thumbnail still displaying as full image
Steps to reproduce...
1) Add to functions.php:
add_image_size( 'half-size', 200, 200, false );
2) Add to template file (inside loop):
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php ...
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Post thumbnail outside the loop
I'm trying to get the post thumbnail in the sidebar which is in essence outside the loop.
For some reason it seems impossible!!!
I have tried all kinds of ways.
Here is the wirking code: (I have ...
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Linking thumbnail to full size image
I use a function in my blog (getImage) to call thumbnails in the loop (it calls the 1st image on the post) but instead of link to the post, i would want the thumbnail to link to its full image src.
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How to create thumbnails with a fixed width, so all of them will have the same width?
right now, a thumbnail will be either 150px in height or in width, depending if it's landscape or portrait. Is there a way to make them always the same width and scale them in height accordingly, ...
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adding an id to the_post_thumbnail
I'm attempting to use the 'feature image' feature of Wordpress to make a full screen background, that resizes to fit the browser window using jQuery
The bit I'm stuck on is adding a custom id ...
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How to List Thumbnails based on Custom Categories
I need to list(display) all thumbnails from my Custom Post Types in a page template based on product categories. For Example I have a Custom Category called "Art" and some images(Custom Post Type) ...
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Make featured image required
Is it possible to force user to set featured image on some types of posts. For example I've got custom post type mm_photo and I want to show some error message or somehow block user from publishing or ...
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Get featured image on Blog Index
I've been trying to use the "featured image" from the home (the blog index) with no luck. It's working for every single page, but it's not working for the home.
The code looks something like this:
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reference the current category being used in the category.php page
I have this code in my category.php file
<?php query_posts( array('post_type'=>'featured' ));
$featured = new WP_Query( array('posts_per_page'=>1, 'tax_query'=> ...
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Can a thumbnail of an animated gif be animated?
I have an animated gif I want to show in two places, having two different sizes.
I am creating two sizes in my functions.php, using
add_image_size( 'small-feature', 500, 300 );
add_image_size( ...
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Image uploader with “Set Featured Image” link on front end
I am loading upload-media.php file using thickbox on front end where user can upload images to the post.
Question: How to I trigger the upload-media.php so the link "set featured image" shows up on ...
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Set WordPress Featured Image For All Post Slugs Matching Image File Name in Specified Directory
I have a bunch of old posts on a blog that I would like to assign a featured image to.
I have retrieved all the images I would like to use for each post.
I saved each image file name after the slug ...
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List category posts - Thumbnails are not displaying
we've been using List Category Posts to display different category posts on one page and it was working great until recently when the thumbnail images disappear. The 'thumbnail=yes' option is there. ...
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Archive Thumbnail Gallery
I am trying to create a Archive page with a list of all my posts with thumbnail and a small excerpt underneath.
kind of like what this guys is doing
...
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add_image_size for post type
I currently have this in my functions file, which works as expected:
// Enable Post Thumbnails
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
// Custom Thumbnail Sizes
add_image_size( 'square-small-thumb', ...
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How can I make post fields required in Wordpress?
I am setting up a Wordpress site as a CMS and trying to figure out a way to make certain post fields "required" before an author can publish a post.
In particular, I want authors to be required to ...
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WP Insert Post function - Insert Post Thumbnail
Whilst performing wp_insert_post, how would one insert the post thumbnail. I tried the code below to no avail.
$postit = array(
'post_title' => $itemtitle,
'post_content' => '',
...
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Display All Post Attachments and Assign Class to the Last Image?
I have a function get_images() in which I would like to display all image attachments for the current post (or page) in a list with the last image having a class="last" attribute to mark it as the ...
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How to remove thumbnail sizes for specific post type on a child theme?
The theme I'm using includes a slideshow that generates an additional 4 image sizes for every image that is uploaded. I don't need to have all those images being generated for every image.
Is there ...
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Hide upload image fields for the different media upload popups
I am trying to change a few of the options in the Set Featured Image popup in the Wordpress admin. I can't seem to find anything that determines if the popup window is a Featured Image or an Add Media ...
