Add photo before Title?

I posted this in another topic, but I’d thought I post it here too. Took me a short while to come up with but maybe it’ll help you.

To get an image above the title using custom fields and no plugins do the following:

1- Make a post in wordpress

2- Under custom fields create a key titled “img_post_header” or something similar

3- For the value, insert the location of the image

4- If you want more image atributes (such as alt text), make more keys and remember what they are called

5- Save/publish that stuff

6- Open /wp-content/themes/[themename]/index.php, after the <div class=”post”> but before the <h2> title (should be around line 9), add this line:
<img src=”<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘img_post_header’, true);?>” width=”600″ height=”200″ />

Of course edit width and height to your specifications.

7- For a custom alt attribute, edit the line to add something like this (assuming img_post_header_alt is the key you used in #4):
alt=”<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘img_post_header_alt’, true);?>”

If say you wanted to make the post title the alt text do this:
alt=”<?php the_title(); ?>” inside the img tag

You should be all good after this.

Good question. I think the most obvious answer is to write an IF statement to check if the img_post_header key exists, and if so then print out the img tag.

I’m to lazy/tired to write out any code atm, but if you need it just reply.

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