Wordpress Attachments with old images

Question

I have a situation where I need to get all the images used in some kind of post. Now the problem is that attachments is saved only when I upload new image, if I use some other image which was already uploaded, it doesn't change my post attachment.

So even if I change all the images in post, Wordpress still see that my post attachment is that very first uploaded image, not the new one. Any ideas how should I rewrite the attachments even if image is not a new one?

Answer 1

To get all featured images belonging to a certain post type, you'd have to get all those posts and the loop through them to get the featured image. Like this:

$query = new WP_Query( array( 
  'post_type'     => 'yourposttype',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  ));

$thumb_list = array ();
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
  while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
    $query->the_post(); 
    $thumb_list[] = get_post_thumbnail_id();
    }
  wp_reset_postdata(); // resetting for the main query
  }