Category Blog Page – add featured image

[2TechGirls]

1. How can I add a featured image to pages using the blog template?

Hi, I've created 2 category blog pages for the main categories on the site following the instructions here - http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/category-blog-page/. I've added a featured image on those two pages. The featured image only displays on the default template, not on the blog template.

2. How can I add a featured image to a category ? I've tried a few plugins with no luck.

Thanks,
Kris

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[Brad Dalton]

Use the Genesis > Theme Settings

Or add in the post image directly to the template.

add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image' );

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[2TechGirls]

Neither of those work. I had already changed the Genesis > Theme Settings without any luck. Adding the code
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image' );
to the function.php file does not update my page.

I'm using the Beautiful Pro theme.

[Brad Dalton]

I suggested adding it directly to the template not the functions file.

Or add in the post image directly to the template.

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[2TechGirls]

Ah, sorry, missed that. We've made a change and it's working.

Thanks.

[2TechGirls]

correction this was not resolved. My solution added the featured image to every post on the blog page. The @braddalton there is not a blog template in this child theme. The blog template functionality is handled in the loops.php file that resides in the Genesis\lib\structure. I attempted to over ride this with my own plugin duplicating all the functionality of this loop, but adding the featured image of the page. It did not work.

Note: for some reason I cannot trap the page id of the blog page that uses the blog_page.php template.
Note: the function is_page(); returns false.

We are still open to ideas. It should not be this difficult to just add a featured image to a page.

[Brad Dalton]

Understand. The conditional tag for the blog page is tricky. You need to find the output in the source code so it could be.

if ( is_page_template('blog_page.php') )

or it might be:

if ( is_page_template('blog-page.php') )

Another option i think you should consider is using this code to create your own custom category templatesrather than the category blog page templates.

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[2TechGirls]

is_page_template('blog_page.php') comes up true in genesis_do_loop(), but comes up false after this process completes.
i'll need to create another custom archive page as you suggested.

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