Featured image for Pages

[unklee]

As I understand it, Genesis themes use the featured image to show thumbnails, but not to show the full size image on the Post or Page.

1. Is there any reason why using the featured image to show on each post and page is a bad idea? Is the best alternative to insert the image manually plus make the same image the featured image?

2. It is easy to make the featured image show on posts. It requires (1) adding an action in the functions.php file and (2) specifying the size the featured image should be if necessary. (1) requires the following code:

add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'featured_post_image', 8 );
function featured_post_image() {
  if ( ! is_singular( 'post' ) )  return;
	the_post_thumbnail('post-image');
}

I have been able to do this successfully. As far as I can see, I should be able to do the same thing for adding the featured image to the top of pages, by changing the third line of code to say "page" - either by having a separate section of code, or by using an "or" function. But I don't seem to be able to make it work

Is there something else I need to do to make the featured image work on pages please?

[manavecplan]

Does this work for you? Presuming that you wanted to target both pages and posts...

function featured_post_image() {
  if ( !is_singular( array( 'post', 'page' ) ))  return;
    the_post_thumbnail('post-image'); //you can use medium, large or a custom size
}
add_action( 'genesis_before_entry', 'featured_post_image', 1 );

[unklee]

Hi, thanks, that seems to have nailed it! I tried something very similar to this that didn't work, but I must have got something wrong. Thanks a lot.

[unklee]

Hi, I don't know if you're still following this thread, but I am curious. It seems (unless I have missed something, which is always possible) that there were only three differences in your code from what I tried but couldn't get to work, and I'm curious as to the difference.

1. You had 'genesis_before_entry' whereas I had 'genesis_before_entry_content'. This determines whether the image is before the heading or afterwards, and works either way.

2. You had the add_action line after the function, whereas I had it first. I don't think this makes any difference, does it?

3. In the add_action, you had the priority as 1, whereas I had 8. This means the function is executed earlier (than what?) - would this make a difference?

Just curious to learn a little more. Thanks.

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