Editing <?php the_content('Read more...'); ?>

Question

Is it possible to automatically add for example image before first h2 tag in the_content?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible.

You can use the_content hook and assign your own filter to this hook.

Then you should (that is the part when things get a little bit messy) parse and replace content of that post.

So for example you can do it like so:

function my_the_content_filter($content) {
  $content = str_replace('<h2 ', '<img src=""...><h2 ', $content);
  return $content;
}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'my_the_content_filter' );