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May 21, 2013 at 8:51 am #42024NotPatrickMember
Hi all,
I've been using a Studiopress theme for my site for a few years, and now that the time has come to refresh it use a new Studiopress theme of course. There are a few things I'm unsure about though, so it would be very helpful to get more info from those who know how things work...
The main question I'd have is about images in posts, and their automatic re-usability in other places. For example, is it possible to set things so that the first images from a post is automatically re-used (and resized if need be) as an illustration for that article in the home page blog view, on the side of the post excerpt. Similarly, I'd love it if it was possible to use that same image in a slider on the home page...
Are there any themes that do that? Or maybe, even better, is there a functionality for that in Genesis, or as a plugin for Genesis?
Thanks!
May 21, 2013 at 10:39 am #42036AnitaKeymasterThat's what the Featured Image is for on the right side of your post. Select a Featured Image. When you use the slider - it will grab that featured image.
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May 21, 2013 at 11:52 am #42049NotPatrickMemberAnd you can select a Featured Image from any image in your post?
And a trick question: what happens if you don't have an image in your post? I'm guessing you can select one from your library?
Thanks for the quick answer!
May 21, 2013 at 12:57 pm #42060AnitaKeymasterYou must have missed my comment - There is a "Featured Image" button on the RIGHT of the Post/Page Edit Mode - you click "Featured Image" and it will prompt you to select a featured image from your desktop or from your Media Library.
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May 21, 2013 at 1:23 pm #42067NotPatrickMemberOh I see, so this is not an image selected from the ones that are already in the body of the post, it's a different image altogether, I see!
And this is a function of the framework, so it's available in all themes I guess.
Thanks, sorry for the misunderstanding.
May 21, 2013 at 1:27 pm #42070AnitaKeymasterYes, it's a function of WordPress CORE. No problem.
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May 22, 2013 at 8:36 am #42198NotPatrickMemberHmmm that's strange, I just checked one of my other blogs and it doesn't have the "featured image" function in the post editor... Is it something that needs to be activated for the current theme?
Sorry to be a pain, I just want to make sure I get it. 🙂
May 22, 2013 at 9:36 am #42206AnitaKeymasterWhat theme is it? What's the name. You can also look under Screen Options. Add a post or open one to Edit it. Look in the top right corner for Screen Options and click it. Make sure there is a checkmark in the Featured Image box. If it doesn't appear then the theme itself may not have Featured Image capability.
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May 22, 2013 at 10:31 am #42216NotPatrickMemberAh ok. It's not in the screen options, but if it's theme dependent it might just be that, it's a super simple one...
So I think I got what I need, thanks!
May 22, 2013 at 1:56 pm #42241Jan RuehlingMemberTo use the featured image upload in the post editor you have to enable it in the functions.php of your theme ... here is a nice article about that:
http://webonanza.com/how-to-add-featured-images-to-blog-posts-in-the-genesis-framework-wordpress/
... following the steps in that article will show "add featured image" in the sidebar ... but if your theme doesn't have any templatetags that display the featured image in the frontend I fear that it won't help you much ...
If you want to read more:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails to enable thumbnails in themes ...
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail ... to display the thumbnails / featured images in the frontend
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