comfy theme: featured images not showing….

Hi,

Are you sure that your theme works with custom fields for the featured posts? Most themes nowadays work with a featured category. Did you try creating a featured category and adding it to some of your posts?
Also, don’t forget to set a Featured image in the post editing window to all your posts.

Let me know if that helps.

Ok. I took a look at your problem.
The Bad News:
The theme slideshow on the version I had access to (3.1) is basically broken. It seems the folks over at Deluxe Themes used to resort to custom fields to retrieve the images for the featured posts. Later on, they updated their slider to work with a featured category, but they did not update the php code that should be retrieving the correct image path (i.e., the src attribute of the image tags).

The Good News:
This is totally fixable. To do so, open up the file templates/index.featured.php locally in a text editor, look for this code (on line 17):

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'featured', true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="662" height="230" /></a>

and replace it with this one:

<?php $feat_image_url = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID) ); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo $feat_image_url?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" width="662" height="230" /></a>

You also need to have a featured image assigned to a post in order for the slideshow to work. Once that is done, turn on your slideshow back on and enjoy your awesomeness, 🙂

Oh, BTW, in their site, Deluxe Themes promises support for life for purchasing this theme. If they offered it to you too, and if they are located in the U.S. or Canada, you can file an official complaint at the Better Business Bureau for false advertising and the likes, if indeed they are failing to provide their users with adequate support.

I did some further testing, and turns out I was wrong about the custom types being an oversight. They are actually quite intentional, since there are two versions of the slideshow that work equally well:
1. The oold one, which works with a featured category that is selected from the dropdown box Select “featured category”. To turn on the old slider, the “Enable the brand new featured slideshow which uses large images” checkbox needs to be unchecked.
2. The new one, which works with a “featured” custom field with the full image path as its value. To turn this one on, the “Enable the brand new featured slideshow which uses large images” needs to be checked.

I guess they did it this way so that users can set very wide images in the slideshow without worrying about how they would look in their thumbnail sizes inside posts and stuff.

Bottomline, you have three choices:
1. Use the old slider with a featured category;
2. Use the new slider with a “featured” custom field. In that case, you would have to undo the changes I suggested in my previous post;
3. Use the new slider with a featured category, in which case you can keep the changes.

Here’s a screenshot of what each slider looks like:
1. Old slider;
2. New slider.

Hi,
Even though the new slider uses a custom field to retrieve the image url, it also needs a “featured category” to retrieve the posts in question, so you also have to specify a featured category in “Select featured category”.
Also, how are you going about adding your custom fields? They are set from the post editing window. If you can’t see the custom field option set, click on the “Screen Options” at the top of the post editing window, right under where it ways “Howdy, [username]”, and check the “Custom Field” checkbox along with any other ones you desire. You should then be able to see the option set fine.
Once you do, click on “New”, and enter “featured” under “Name” and the full path to the image for that post under “Value”. You will have to do that for every post you wish to display in the slideshow.
Here is a screenshot of how to do it.
After doing that, your slider should work as expected.

The image path you are entering for the custom field is correct, since I can see the image fine.
Are you clicking on “Update”or “Save” in the Post Editing window after adding the custom fields and categories to your posts