Can You Manually Enter a "Featured Image" with "Custom Fields"

  • trivum

    (@trivum)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I know there is a “Featured Image” function in the editor, but I am trying to do something a little different, and it won’t let me use that feature. (It’s complicated, so I won’t go into it here.)

    Is there a way to still use the “Featured Image” function via “Custom Fields”? … What would be the name to call the “Featured Image” function?

    Thanks.

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    What would be the name to call the “Featured Image” function?

    there is no such a function.

    when you use a custom field for your feature image, you would need to edit index.php (and/or single.php – depending where you want to show the image) and insert something like the following, where you want the image to show:

    <?php $feature_img = get_post_meta($post->ID,'feature',true);
if($feature_img) { ?>
<img class="featured" src="<?php echo $feature_img; ?>" alt="" />
<?php } ?>

    the if statement prevents an empty img tag if the custom field is empty.
    maybe with some html around, and styled in style.css.
    assuming that the $key for the custom field is ‘feature’ and the value is the absolute image url (including http://)

    Thread Starter trivum

    (@trivum)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    OK, thanks. I’ll see if I can play with that.

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