WP: how to change images in post excerpt?

[meals303]

Hi folks,

I am currently working on my category pages in WordPress and I have managed to style 90% of my posts that show up under a specific category.

My problem is that I wish to display a different image for each post excerpt (not in the actual post), pretty much like css-tricks has in "video’s" sections, and I do not know where to look in WP Codex to find the relevant php code to call up an assigned image.

I tried adding a div area in my category.php which defines an area for the image in CSS to sit in, and then in the actual post page (WP Dashboard) I inserted the image with the same class as used in the div. But it only showed up in the actual post full article page and not in the excerpt. This I now know is the wrong way… could anyone point me in the right direction?

I would be most grateful for any help :)

[TeMc]

I’d put the image in the actuall post content.

If you’re using the_content() in your categorie-file then remember to put it after the <!–more–>.
Then use a function on your category-template-file to extract that first image and display it in the div you have going.

For the function see here: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-get-the … display-it
Put that function in functinons.php of your theme, and call it in your category-file.

Code:

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meals303

Member

Thank you very much for that link TeMc, I will check that out right now and reply back with how I got on later.

Cheers M :)

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meals303

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No luck, I did everything as you suggested and the stuff from the tutorial but it doesn’t seem to display the image only the url source.

*I tried inserting the img before the <!–more–> tag in the page editor & after it – no joy
*I tried sticking an image in the Media db area on WP DSB and direct the image to there in stead off my server – no joy
* Tried making my div container larger – no joy

May have to look for a plugin instead. Thank you for your help though, appreciated! It may work for me if I do another WP site..

==EDIT==
Sadly that didn’t work, some of the plugins I found were problematic for the style of my post – but I found this alternative which works fine, but it does not link to the first image in your post: http://blogigs.com/display-thumbnail-images-in-post-excerpts/ hope this helps others :)

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davesgonebananas

Member

Well you could either wait until WordPress 2.9 – when posts get thumbnail images – or use a custom field in your post as found in the article above. .

[meals303]

Thank you very much for that link TeMc, I will check that out right now and reply back with how I got on later.

Cheers M :)

[meals303]

No luck, I did everything as you suggested and the stuff from the tutorial but it doesn’t seem to display the image only the url source.

*I tried inserting the img before the <!–more–> tag in the page editor & after it – no joy
*I tried sticking an image in the Media db area on WP DSB and direct the image to there in stead off my server – no joy
* Tried making my div container larger – no joy

May have to look for a plugin instead. Thank you for your help though, appreciated! It may work for me if I do another WP site..

==EDIT==
Sadly that didn’t work, some of the plugins I found were problematic for the style of my post – but I found this alternative which works fine, but it does not link to the first image in your post: http://blogigs.com/display-thumbnail-images-in-post-excerpts/ hope this helps others :)

[davesgonebananas]

Well you could either wait until WordPress 2.9 – when posts get thumbnail images – or use a custom field in your post as found in the article above. .

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