Multiple Post Thumbnails WP plugin

[tobeeornot]

Has anyone used this plugin? I have installed and registered it for multiple images but I am not getting a response in the template I am applying to and would appreciate some assistance.

[TheDoc]

Haven’t used it, sorry!

[tobeeornot]

Hey Doc, basically I just want a way for the user to upload three images via the WP back-end page and apply one class for padding, etc. Is there another way around it?

[TheDoc]

Well, I’m slightly confused as to what you want to do! Previously, it looked like you were pulling in three separate pages onto the home page – is that still the case?

If so, you can just attach a featured image to each of those pages.

[tobeeornot]

No, I just want to pull three images onto the home page. The images don’t come from any other page but need to be uploaded by the user to the homepage. Therefore I don’t think I can use the Featured Image to do it as it only applies to one image, no?

[TheDoc]

You are correct.

You can pull attachments from a page (so, if a user has uploaded three images onto a page you can pull them out) but they’d all have to be the same dimensions and the order in which they are uploaded would matter – not a very good solution!

Do you have a screenshot of what you’re trying to accomplish? I think I have an idea of something that you can use.

[tobeeornot]

Screenshot

So you can see, it is just three separate images. I just want to give the user the ability to change them via the back-end in the easiest way. It would good so they good adjust the dimensions but not essential.

[TheDoc]

You could use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin here. Each title, text, link and image would be a separate field. So in total you’d have… 12 fields that are editable. Maybe not the nicest solution, but it’d certainly be the most flexible.

[tobeeornot]

Would you use that? Or were thinking of something else?

[TheDoc]

I think that’s probably the way I’d go. Either that or create three subpages under home and pull the content from each of those in.

[tobeeornot]

Cheers Doc.

[noahgelman]

I’ve used this plugin several times and know it well. Paste in the code you’re trying to use and I’ll tell you how to edit it to fix your issue

[tobeeornot]

@noahgelman

Thanks for that – I appreciate it.

The problem seems to be that when I go to upload the images from the WP back-end, there is no options for selecting multiple images, but it does specify the option to select image dimensions i set.

Functions php:

// Add secondary thumbnail (featured image) in posts */

if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) {

new MultiPostThumbnails(array (

'label' => 'Secondary Image',

'id' => 'secondary-image',

'post_type' => 'post' )

);

new MultiPostThumbnails(array(

'label' => 'Quaternary Image',

'id' => 'quaternary-image', )

);

new MultiPostThumbnails(array(

'label' => 'Tertiary Image',

'id' => 'tertiary-image', )

);

}

add_image_size('post-secondary-image-thumbnail', 176, 58, true);

add_image_size('post-tertiary-image-thumbnail', 176, 58, true);

add_image_size('post-quaternary-image-thumbnail', 176, 58, true);

I am looking to add three images on this template. This is the template for the relevant page:

What We Do









query_posts("posts_per_page=1&post_type=page&page_id=168");

the_post (); ?>








MultiPostThumbnails::the_post_thumbnail('post', 'secondary-image', NULL,  	 		  		'post-secondary-image-thumbnail');

?>

" class="button">View More






the_post(); ?>








MultiPostThumbnails::the_post_thumbnail('post', 'quaternary-image', NULL,

'post-quaternary-image-thumbnail');?>

" class="button">View More














'post-tertiary-image-thumbnail');?>

" class="button">View More

[jeleyinte]

I have used once ‘cos I didn’t like the layout, so I uninstalled it.

[noahgelman]

Yeah, your code is a bit different than mine. Here is an example of mine.

Functions.php

if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) { new MultiPostThumbnails(array( 'label' => 'Second Featured Image', 'id' => 'second-image', 'post_type' => 'post' ) ); }

Page code:

if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')

&& MultiPostThumbnails::has_post_thumbnail('post', 'second-image')) :

MultiPostThumbnails::the_post_thumbnail('post', 'second-image', NULL, 'blog-post-thumbnail');

endif;

?>

Compare them and see the differences with yours

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