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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Retrieve 1st image in post and set it as featured image, when post is saved/updated
I need to set a featured image for every post I publish. So, when a post is published/updated, the script would scan the post for the first image using a script like this:
// Get URL of first ...
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How can I make add_image_size() crop from the top?
I have a series of posts, all with featured images, but I need to be able to customise the crop top right corner. In this instance, I need them to be cropped from top right, but it would be useful to ...
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User-friendly cropping of post thumbnails?
Is there a way to let my users define the crop area of a post thumbnail? The thumbnails always are existing post attachments, I would rather not create an extra attachment per thumbnail.
The post ...
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Filter to remove image dimension attributes?
I'm working on a site based on a fluid width css template which sets a max-width on images to the width of the column containing them, and I need to remove the inline width and height dimension ...
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Set custom name for generated thumbnails
Is there any filter available to set the naming convention of those auto generated thumbnails?
Something like this:
thumbnail_150x150.jpg -> thumbnail-s.jpg
thumbnail_300x300.jpg -> ...
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Minimum Dimensions Requirement for Featured Image?
I am creating a baseball website with multiple Authors. From past experience, no matter how well you know someone personally, it doesn't mean they will follow or even read your instructions.
That ...
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Upload post thumbnail from the front end
We would like users to be able to upload the post thumbnail when editing posts. How would this be done. I would imagine it would make use of the ajax functions of wordpress.
Any ideas,
Marvellous
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What is your take: TimThumb vs. WordPress Thumbnails? The great debate [closed]
When it comes to excerpts, do you believe TimThumb or WordPress thumbnails is the way to go? And why? Answers will not be graded (but may be criticized).
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media_sideload_image generates blank?
I'm creating a custom post form that is supposed to take an external image and uploads it to the media library and attach it to that post. This should be possible by using media_sideload_image, but ...
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Set post-thumbnail (with php)?
A site I have inherited uses custom fields to set a path for thumbnails. Ideally I'd like to switch this over to use the built in post-thumbnail. Is there a way to procedurally set the post-thumbnail?
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oEmbed, thumbnails and wordpress
Wordpress has wp_oembed_get, which I use to get rich media content with embed.ly. I've previously used oEmbed api calls such as this. As you can see it provides thumbnail_url, which I like to use ...
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How to Fix HTTP Error When Uploading Images?
I am using WordPress 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 using Apache and PHP 5.3.X
When I login to the dashboard and add a new post. Then try uploading an image to set as a featured image, I get a red box with a ...
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How do I set a featured image (thumbnail) by image URL when using wp_insert_post()?
While looking through the function reference entry for wp_insert_post(), I noticed that there's no parameter in the array it requires which will allow me to set the 'Featured Image' for a post, ...
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Can I set a default featured image for a category?
I'm setting up a site with a theme that takes advantage of the "featured image" feature of WordPress. Since my end users are not the most tech saavy in the world, I'd like to set things up so that the ...
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Stop wordpress from hardcoding img width and height attributes
I'm wondering if there's a simple way top stop WordPress automatically hardcoding featured image height and width attributes, other than using regex...
As I'm using a flexible grid for my project ...
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Prevent publishing the post before setting a featured image?
As the title says , I want a plugin/function to prevent/inform the user when he tries to publish the post without setting the featured image.
ANY HELP ???
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Add Image Dimensions to Media Library Tab on Media Upoader
I would like to add the dimensions of each image to the media library tab in the media uploader.
I have a multi-author website, where I require users to add a featured image with minimum dimensions. ...
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New image size version only for the Featured Image file
I'm worried about too many files created when adding a new image size.
All uploaded files will generate the new size, I need a specific image size only for the file set as Fetured image, is there ...
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Display Post Thumbnail Without Being Featured Image
I'm hoping that I can explain what I'm going for here.
On my current project's main page, I'm displaying each post's Featured Image Thumb, along with an excerpt of the post's content.
In each of the ...
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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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wordpress custom walker for thumbnails with custom menu
I'm still very novice at PHP so any help is greatly appreciated. Typically I have found the codex to be very helpful but it appears custom walkers may be outside its scope.
I'd like to have ...
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VT-resize image and display it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Retrieve 1st image in post and set it as featured image, when post is saved/updated
I am trying to make this works and instead of giving me the url of the image, it is ...
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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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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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Can I refresh the thumbnails programmatically?
I would like to be able to refresh the thumbnail cache programmatically, not sure where to hook it, but at present any design changes mean re-uploading loads of images!
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add_image_size() for specific Post Types
set_post_thumbnail_size( 80, 80, true ); // true for all post types
Suppose I have two post types in play on my blog: Post, Video and Product. I may want a 80x80 image size for my posts, but 100x100 ...
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Auto-retrieve YouTube Image for Thumbnail?
I have a custom post type that accepts a YouTube embed HTML snippet, title, and a featured image. Currently, I'm going and finding an image for the featured image, but ideally I would be able to ...
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How do I get image url only on the_post_thumbnail
I want to know how to get image url on the_post_thumbnail()
Default the_post_thumbnail()
<img width="800" height="533" src="http://domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/book06.jpg" ...
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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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Display thumbnail only on the very first post in the loop?
What's the best way to use <?php the_post_thumbnail();?> in my loop BUT only show a thumbnail on the FIRST post? Meaning, only the first post in the loop will have it's image shown?
Here is an ...
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Get post thumbnail size
I know how to set the size of an image type:
set_post_thumbnail_size( 150, 150 )
..or using the media settings, but how do I get the image with and image height that have been set for an image ...
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Any easy way to automatically set the first inline image in a post as the thumbnail?
Is there a plugin for this? Has anyone done it before?
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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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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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Set Featured Image Front Frontend Form
I have been struggling for days to figure this one out. I have successfully implemented a form to submit posts from the front end of my site. ButI can't figure out how to make the image uploads work.
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How can I migrate all of my custom field thumbnails to the built-in post featured image?
I am running a theme on my Wordpress install that was built for Wordpress 2.8, prior to the time that Wordpress started using featured images for posts. I am switching to a theme that was built for ...
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How to grab first image attached to post and display in RSS feed?
I've seen the tutorials on how to grab the first image and display it in a post, and those on grabbing the post_thumbnail and using that in the RSS feed, but does anybody know how to grab the first ...
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Featured images loop for Orbit Slider
To integrate Zurb´s Orbit Slider in my theme, I´m trying to generate this HTML with WordPress:
<div id="featured">
<img src="featured-image-1.jpg" alt="the-alt-tag" ...
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Set (featured) thumbnail for post?
I'm using wp_insert_post and media_sideload_image to create a post and attach a single image to the post. However, how can I mark this attached image as featured thumbnail? It would make listing the ...
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How do I regenerate thumbnails?
I just got a new theme and am trying to regenerate thumbnails. I'm having trouble though. I tried using the AJAX Thumbnail Rebuilder but for 5 hours it just said reading attachments. Then I tried 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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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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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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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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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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Add a Post Thumbnail to an RSS Feed with custom size
I have two different blogs on the same domain and my goal is to get the 3 latest posts from blog1 to show on the home page of blog2. Everything goes well following these instructions: ...
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the_post_thumbnail fallback using hooks
I am using this big theme that is almost entirely relying on widgets and sliders.
Now I trying to avoid looking for post_thumbnail output code in all the included files in order to achieve fallback ...
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How to display a post's Featured Image with this code?
so this is sort of a continuation of another question that I had to ask recently. I wanted to start another conversation, since technically my last question was answered. The last question is here: ...
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Displaying a featured image (only img url) as the img src?
I have the following code:
if (themedy_get_option('product_gallery')) { add_action('genesis_post_content', 'themedy_product_images', 1); }
function themedy_product_images() { ?>
<?php
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Bind to WPSetAsThumbnail
is there a way to bind some extra script to the WPSetAsThumbnail function? the function automatically inserts the image into the post's metabox, but what if i wanted to do something else with it? ...
