Combining Post Thumbnails With Nivo Slider

Question

I am wanting to use the post thumbnail with the nivo slider and for it to generate the image from a custom image size (already declared in my functions file)

I wrote this (for generating the images)

<img src="<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>" data-thumb=""<?php the_post_thumbnail('sliderimage')> title="" />

It doesnt seem to load the images, however if i take away the image tags etc it works.

Can the above be achieved this way so that it auto generates the thumbnails and loads the images?

Answer 1

the_post_thumbnail() displays the featured image. get_the_post_thumbnail() retrieves it for use in code. Try something like this:

<?php
$featured_image = get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID() );
$fi_src = $featured_image['src'];
$slider = get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), 'sliderimage' );
$s_src = $slider['src'];
?>
<img src="<?php echo $fi_src; ?>" data-thumb=""<?php echo $s_src; ?> title="" />