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Tagged: 360 Photo, featured image

  • This topic has 11 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 9 months ago by Brad Dalton.
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  • September 23, 2017 at 9:39 am #211797
    rfichtinger
    Member

    I was wondering if there's an easy way to insert a 360 Photo as a Featured Image?

    Thanks,
    Bob

    http://www.invitation633.com/
    September 23, 2017 at 1:55 pm #211807
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Hello Bob

    Where did you want to display the featured image. On archive pages and/or single posts?


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    September 23, 2017 at 2:22 pm #211808
    rfichtinger
    Member

    Brad,

    On the single posts.

    - Bob

    September 23, 2017 at 2:43 pm #211809
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Link to a example of a 360 image you want to use please.

    You would need to be able to embed the image. If you can do that in WordPress, then you can easily add it in genesis single posts.


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    September 23, 2017 at 2:46 pm #211810
    rfichtinger
    Member

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    September 23, 2017 at 3:51 pm #211811
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    There's 3 methods.

    1. You can use js

    2. A WordPress plugin

    3. or install the code on your server


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    September 23, 2017 at 4:53 pm #211812
    rfichtinger
    Member

    I have the plugin for the 360 VR Photos - "WP-VR-view - Photo Sphere and 360 video". It displays 360 photos on the posts (by using shortcode) - just don't know how to get it into my featured image area.

    Thanks,
    Bob

    September 23, 2017 at 5:02 pm #211813
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Something like this

    add_action( 'genesis_before_entry', 'shortcode_before_entry' );
    
    function shortcode_before_entry() {
    
        if ( ! is_singular( 'post' )  ) {
    		return;
    	}
    
        echo do_shortcode('[your_shortcode_handle]');
    }
    

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    September 23, 2017 at 6:23 pm #211816
    rfichtinger
    Member

    I updated my functions file. Not sure how to place shortcode into the set featured image area.

    I've tried creating a test post with no featured image and place a 360 file on the post itself - thinking it would show that as my featured image - which works on regular jpg's. But a gray box shows up instead of the 360 photo.

    Any more thoughts.

    Thanks for your help,
    Bob

    September 23, 2017 at 6:41 pm #211817
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Did you swap out this [your_shortcode_handle] with your shortcode?

    Also check known issues. Didn't work in Chrome for me but did in FF.


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    September 23, 2017 at 6:53 pm #211818
    rfichtinger
    Member

    Not sure what you mean? I used the plug-in's short code. What's does the new short code look like? Sorry I'm not a coder.

    [vrview img="http://www.invitation633.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_2149.jpg" width="100%" ]

    Thanks,
    Bob

    September 23, 2017 at 6:59 pm #211820
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Thats a shortcode so swap that out in the PHP code above

    add_action( 'genesis_before_entry', 'shortcode_before_entry' );
    
    function shortcode_before_entry() {
    
        if ( ! is_singular( 'post' )  ) {
    		return;
    	}
    
        echo do_shortcode('[vrview img="http://www.invitation633.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_2149.jpg" width="100%" ]');
    }
    

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