Seperate Picture for Post Thumbnail rather than using image from post – Minimum

[rosstcorbett]

Hi,

For my blog post thumbnail I would like to use a different picture than what is in the blog post.

From what I understand, a thumbnail picture is created by taking the first photo from the Blog post.

How can I use a different photo for the post thumbnail?

Thanks.

Ross

WW2 Discovery

[Peter]

Hi Ross.

Just a quick guess here, but have you tried adding featured images to your posts? I think featured image images take precedence over images in the post content for the thumbnails..

[rosstcorbett]

Hi Peter,

Yes I have tried that but when doing this the featured image then also appears in the blog post.

I have recently swapped over from using Thesis, there was a very simple way of doing it on there and I am sure there must also be a simple way of doing it using Genesis.

Just need to find out how 🙂

 

[Peter]

Ah.. I just checked.. do you mean the featured image which appears above the post title on single posts?

[rosstcorbett]

Yes, I don't want the Featured image to appear in the blog post, I just want it to appear as the post thumbnail picture.

[Peter]

Ok. In your functions.php file on line 66 there is a function which displays the featured images.. it looks like this;

/** Add the featured image section */
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'minimum_featured_image' );
function minimum_featured_image() {
	if ( is_home() ) {
		echo '<div id="featured-image"><img src="'. get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/sample.jpg" /></div>';
	}
	elseif ( is_singular( array( 'post', 'page' ) ) && has_post_thumbnail() ){
		echo '<div id="featured-image">';
		echo get_the_post_thumbnail($thumbnail->ID, 'header');
		echo '</div>';
	}
}

If you change it to this;

/** Add the featured image section */
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'minimum_featured_image' );
function minimum_featured_image() {
	if ( is_home() ) {
		echo '<div id="featured-image"><img src="'. get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/sample.jpg" /></div>';
	}
	/*
	elseif ( is_singular( array( 'post', 'page' ) ) && has_post_thumbnail() ){
		echo '<div id="featured-image">';
		echo get_the_post_thumbnail($thumbnail->ID, 'header');
		echo '</div>';
	}
	*/
}

the featured images on single pages won't be shown above the title, so you can use them for the thumbnails.

Edit: the forum is mucking about with the ampersands and turning them into #038; - they should be a plain ampersand in your code..

Does that do what you need?

[eluviis]

By the way... This thread my interest you: http://www.studiopress.community/topic/minimum-theme-best-practices-for-featured-images/

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