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Hi all,

I use the WP 2.3 Related Posts plugin (http://fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/) in order to display the related post under a post. What I want to do is to display a thumbnail from the related post near its link like in http://www.lifehacker.com/.

I want to use this piece of code to display the attachment thumb but it doesn't work...

<a href="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url($post->ID); ?>"><?php echo wp_get_attachment_image( $post->ID, 'thumb' ); ?></a>

I think I must input it in this code (wp 2.3 related posts code) :

foreach ($related_posts as $related_post ){
		$output .= '<li>';

		$show_date = get_option("wp23_RP_Date");
		if ($show_date){
			$dateformat = get_option('date_format');
			$output .=   mysql2date($dateformat, $related_post->post_date) . " -- ";
		}

		$output .=  '<a href="'.get_permalink($related_post->ID).'" title="'.wptexturize($related_post->post_title).'">'.wptexturize($related_post->post_title).'';

		$show_comments_count = get_option("wp23_RP_Comments");
		if ($show_comments_count){
			$output .=  " (" . $related_post->comment_count . ")";
		}

		$output .=  '</a></li>';
	}

	$output =  '<h3>'.$wp23_RP_title .'</h3>'.'<ul class="related_post">' . $output . '</ul>';
	return $output;

If anyone can help me... Thanks

I plug this into functions.php:

function postimage($size=medium) {
	if ( $images = get_children(array(
		'post_parent' => get_the_ID(),
		'post_type' => 'attachment',
		'numberposts' => 1,
		'post_mime_type' => 'image',)))
	{
		foreach( $images as $image ) {
			$attachmenturl=wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID);
			$attachmentimage=wp_get_attachment_image( $image->ID, $size );
			$imagelink=get_permalink($image->post_parent);

			echo '<a href="'.$imagelink.'">'.$attachmentimage.apply_filters('the_title', $parent->post_title).'</a>';
		}
	}
}

Then, I query the post thumbnails with this:

<?php postimage('thumbnail'); ?>

You can use this for the "medium" size image too:

<?php postimage('medium'); ?>

For original/full

<?php postimage('large'); ?>

Thanks endortrails

Please explain more.

please explain what you need to get explained.

create a functions.php, insert the code, then upload to your theme directory.
Use the <?php postimage() ?> code wherever you want to have the post's image.

Here is my blog

http://bbarms.com/blog/speed-loader-airsplat/

As you can see the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed"
I used the plugin : http://fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/

What i need is Post Pictures in front of Similar Post Titles

Example
Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed
(POST PIC) -- ( SIMILAR POST TITLE)

I don't know this plugin, so I'm "thinking aloud".
You still should create that functions.php file and paste the post_image function in there so that you can use the <?php postimage('thumbnail'); ?> code bit.
Then find the wp_related_posts.php file and open it with a text editor. Make sure to save a copy of the original plugin since we're editing it :)

Starting in line 114 it seems like the plugin is outputting the actual related posts in an unordered list. So I would change Line 115 from
$output .= '<li>';
to
$output .= '<li>'.postimage('thumbnail');
and see what happens.

it look like this
http://bbarms.com/blog/airsoft-mkii-m249-saw-machine-gun-ak/

that My Single Post code

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content"><div id="content-inner">

	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	<div id="maincol">

		<div class="col-inner"> 

		  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		    <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

			  			  <div class="post-title">

			    <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
			  </div>

			 <div class="entry">

<?php the_content(''.__('Read the rest of this entry <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'sandbox').''); ?>

<?php link_pages("\t\t\t\t\t<div class='page-link'>".__('Pages: ', 'sandbox'), "</div>\n", 'number'); ?>

<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', ''), "- <span class=\"edit-link\">", "</span>"); ?>

			  </div>		

<?php wp_related_posts(); postimage('thumbnail') ; ?>

		  <?php comments_template(); ?>

			<?php endwhile; else: ?>

				<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

		<?php endif; ?>

		  </div><!-- .post -->

		</div>

	</div><!-- #maincol -->

</div></div><!-- #content -->

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/extra.php'); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

See this bit
<?php wp_related_posts(); postimage('thumbnail') ; ?> just won't work.
You can forget your own theme file since you need to put the thumbnail inside the related posts plugin.
Try the stuff I posted!

here is my function.php

<?php

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )

    register_sidebar(array(

		'name' => 'Left Column',    

        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

        'after_widget' => '</li>',

        'before_title' => '<h2 class="sidebartitle">',

        'after_title' => '</h2>',

    ));

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )

    register_sidebar(array(

		'name' => 'Right Column',    

        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

        'after_widget' => '</li>',

        'before_title' => '<h2 class="sidebartitle">',

        'after_title' => '</h2>',

    ));

// Search 	

	function widget_zone_out_search() {

?>	

<?php

}

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') )

    register_sidebar_widget(__('Search'), 'widget_zone_out_search');

function postimage($size=medium) {
	if ( $images = get_children(array(
		'post_parent' => get_the_ID(),
		'post_type' => 'attachment',
		'numberposts' => 1,
		'post_mime_type' => 'image',)))
	{
		foreach( $images as $image ) {
			$attachmenturl=wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID);
			$attachmentimage=wp_get_attachment_image( $image->ID, $size );
			$imagelink=get_permalink($image->post_parent);

			echo '<a href="'.$imagelink.'">'.$attachmentimage.apply_filters('the_title', $parent->post_title).'</a>';
		}
	}
}

And i also added

$output .= '