Comments on: Post image the easy peasy way

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:25:03 +0000

That isn't part of the function but it is a very simply matter to add it in.

By: Josh Byers

Josh Byers — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:23:57 +0000

Great tutorial! This helps me so much!

Is it possible to call individual images attached to the post based on their sort order using this function?

The code might look like this:
Default, calls the image with the sort order of 0
Calls the image with the sort order of 1
Calls the image with the sort order of 2

And so on...

By: tonygray216

tonygray216 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:22:49 +0000

Wow! That is great! You are da man…thanks for the quick turn around.

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:14:26 +0000

Take a look at my next post Vivien. I have updated the function to do what you want:
http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2009/01/10/easy-peasy-i...

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:11:58 +0000

Tony, I have updated the code in my new post: http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2009/01/10/easy-peasy-i...

I don't know much about thickbox so I have implemented the default, just as you have, and got the same results.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:11:37 +0000

Thanks, Andrew. So basically, you're saying that I should leave the things as is on my blog: use a custom field to display the featured image and make this image available in RSS with the hook?

By: Tony Gray

Tony Gray — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:21:43 +0000

great! I'm looking forward to it. Maybe you will help me figure out why I'm seeing the close image instead of the text. You can see what i've done here. http://blog.tgrayimages.com/

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:38:22 +0000

Hi Tony,

There is another way to do it which would be more flexible. Look out for the follow up post where I roll up the suggestions and I will include it there.

By: Tony Gray

Tony Gray — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:17:45 +0000

This will be one of the most useful tutorials in my toolbox. I can't tell you have much headache you have just saved me. I've been trying to teach my clients how to post images using the custom fields it and freaks them out. This is AWESOME. I made a couple of additions to your function. I wanted to be able to click on the image and show the large image in the jquery thickbox. Here is the modified code and all seems to be working great! I enqueued jquery and thickobx and then modified the anchor tag. Let me know if there is a better way.

Thanks for the code!


function tb_enqueue() {
    wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
    wp_enqueue_script('thickbox');
}
add_action('wp_head', 'tb_enqueue', 1);

function the_image($size = 'medium' , $class = ''){
	global $post;
 
	//setup the attachment array
	$att_array = array(
		'post_parent' => $post->ID,
		'post_type' => 'attachment',
		'post_mime_type' => 'image',
		'order_by' => 'menu_order'
	);
 
	//get the post attachments
	$attachments = get_children($att_array);
 
	//make sure there are attachments
	if (is_array($attachments)){
		//loop through them
		foreach($attachments as $att){
			//find the one we want based on its characteristics
			if ( $att->menu_order == 0){
				$image_src_array = wp_get_attachment_image_src($att->ID, $size);
				$image_src_array_large = wp_get_attachment_image_src($att->ID, "large");
 
				//get url - 1 and 2 are the x and y dimensions
				$url = $image_src_array[0];
				$url_large = $image_src_array_large[0];
				$caption = $att->post_excerpt;
				$image_html = '';
 
				//combine the data
				$html = sprintf($image_html,$url_large,$url,$caption,$class);
 
				//echo the result
				echo $html;
			}
		}
	}
}

By: Ben Whitehouse

Ben Whitehouse — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:23:40 +0000

Thanks Andrew. I did a little dance and hacked something together that now works. Thanks!