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1. jumust
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi,
   I would like to link the thumbnail to the post link. Here is my site http://thisweekin.net/malibu/ and as you can see you can't click on the thumbnail to go into the post.

   I have this code to show the thumbnail:
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(array(300, 9999), array('class' => 'alignleft post_thumbnail', 'alt' => 'alttext', 'title' => 'titletext', 'align' => 'left', 'hspace'=>10)); ?>

   I tried to add <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"> before it and close the <a> after but it doesn' work.

   I appreciate any helps.

   Thanks

2. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I believe you have to go the "get" route for retrieving both the thumb and the permalink. Try using get_the_post_thumbnail instead. So, e.g.:

   <?php $img = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, $optional_size, $optional_attr);
   $perm = get_permalink($post->ID); ?>
   
   <a href="<?php echo($perm); ?>" title="Whatever"><?php echo($img); ?></a>

   Obviously you could trim this down by just calling the functions inside the echoes but the above is a bit easier to see.

   Does this work for you?

   John

3. jumust
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi,
   thanks!
   I'm not so expert and I have a question. Can I keep the options in the array (like: size, align-->left, hspace-->10) and how the code should be with this options?

   Thanks

4. jumust
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Also in the theme-options file I have this code
   add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post' ) ); // Add it for posts

   Should I edit anything?

   Thanks

5. jumust
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi SpankMarvin,
   I tried your code and it works! Thanks!
   I can set up the class=alignleft and it's aligned well.

   The only thing I need is to keep the properties align="left" in the function even though it doesn't affect the website because there is already a class to align the image; but I use this properties because I scrape the home page to create a newsletter and if I don't use align="left" the text shows below the image in the email, also I want to avoid to manually insert this properties for each post in the email template every week.
   Is it something we can do?

   Beacause I noticed that if I insert align=left with firebug, I can't click anymore on the image....strange!

   Thanks

6. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to do. Which tag are you trying to apply the align="left" attribute to, a paragraph tag?

7. jumust
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Actually I tried to make your code with align=left like
   

   <?php $img = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, array(300, 9999), array('class' => 'alignleft post_thumbnail', 'alt' => 'alttext', 'title' => 'titletext', 'align' => 'left', 'hspace'=>10));
   $perm = get_permalink($post->ID); ?>
   
   <a href="<?php echo($perm); ?>" title="Whatever"><?php echo($img); ?></a>

   but the thumb is not linked. If I remove "align=left" and the "class=alignleft post_thumbnail" it works.

   Also you can see the code of the page here http://pastebin.com/JR9taKgD

   The post is in a <td> tag

   Thanks

8. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I don't think 'align' is a valid value for the attributes in get_the_post_thumbnail. Is there any reason why you cannot stick with using class names and then style if needed?

9. jumust
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   The reason is that since I'll scrape the home page and I'll use the scrape code for a newsletter template, If I keep align=left when I'll scrape the page I'll get align=left.
   Since my client can't edit any code (and insert align=left later only in the email template) I need to figure out a way to get align=left automatically inserted, because I think only with inline code I can align the image in Outlook, I didn't find any other solution with CSS.

   With the code I used before I could insert the align=left and it didn't affect anything in the site, and I could grab it in the scrape code.

   Now that I want to use get_the_post_thumbnail I can't insert the align=left anymore....

   Should I choose either newsletter or link image? :-(

   Please let me know if it's clear

   Thanks for your help

10. SpankMarvin
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Ok, try this:

    <?php
    $img_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID); // This gets just the ID of the img
    $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src($img_id, $optional_size); // Get URL of the image, and size can be set here too (same as with get_the_post_thumbnail, I think)
    
    $perm = get_permalink($post->ID);
    
    ?>
    
    <a href="<?php echo($perm); ?>" title="Whatever"><img src="<?php echo($image[0]); ?>" width="<?php echo($image[1] ?>" height="<?php echo($image[2] ?>" align="left" class="whatever classes" alt="alttext" /></a>

    I'm still not sure this is what you're after, but it at least brings in the flexibility of being able to control the img tag directly, which hopefully helps...

    J

11. jumust
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Thanks! It looks great!
    I think it needs just a little tweak because I get this error:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in /home/content/68/6802868/html/wp-content/themes/diarise/EmailHomePage.php on line 238

    but the meaning of your concept sounds alright.

    Thanks

12. Curtiss Grymala
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    That's because there are a few missing parentheses in the code provided above (happens to me all the time). This should do it:
    

    <?php
    $img_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID); // This gets just the ID of the img
    $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src($img_id, $optional_size); // Get URL of the image, and size can be set here too (same as with get_the_post_thumbnail, I think)
    
    $perm = get_permalink($post->ID);
    
    ?>
    
    <a href="<?php echo($perm); ?>" title="Whatever"><img src="<?php echo($image[0]); ?>" width="<?php echo($image[1]); ?>" height="<?php echo($image[2]); ?>" align="left" class="whatever classes" alt="alttext" /></a>

13. SpankMarvin
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Oh yes, sorry about that, the code seems to have got garbled there. Thanks for cleaning it up, Curtiss.

14. jumust
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Thank you both!!! The error disappeared.
    But unfortunately I still can not have the image link.
    I just copied and pasted your code without any edits, but nothing happens

    You can check it out here http://thisweekin.net/malibu/
    Actually now I only inserted the class.

    Hope it's an easy fix!!! Thanks!

    Cheers,

    Juri

15. jumust
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Hi,
    I'm trying but no solutions. If you use that code you get the thumbnail link to full post page, but how do you align the image usually?
    If I don't use anything I get the link but look at this http://screencast.com/t/TRQVTBxNiebE

    Please let me know your thoughts

    Thanks for all

    Cheers!

16. Curtiss Grymala
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    It looks like you have the alignment working, now.

    Also, looking at the source of your page, the link is working, too. However, something in the way you have the page laid out is causing the post content container to appear overtop of the linked thumbnail, so you can't actually click on the link.

    Try moving the code for the thumbnail/link inside of the <div class="post-copy"> rather than being before that container.

17. jumust
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    Hey Curtiss thanks very much it did the job, the problem was not because of the align...sorry for the confusion..

    Also I tried to get the alt text of the thumbnail I set up in the post, but didn't work this below, any thoughts?

    $alttext = array('alt' => trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_excerpt )),);
    
    and than
    
    alt="<?php echo($alttext); ?>"

    Thanks for all

18. Curtiss Grymala
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    The "post_excerpt" property of an attachment is the information you entered in the "Caption" section of the form. Is that what you really want? In order to retrieve the "alt" attribute, you will need to query for it. That query would look like:

    $alttext = get_post_meta( $img_id, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true );

    Then, you can use:
    alt="<?php echo $alttext; ?>"

    However, if you want to use the "Caption" as the "alt" attribute, as you have shown above, that's fine. The issue with the code you showed above is the fact that you are storing the information in an array, then trying to echo that array (which will usually just add "Array" to your code). In order to use the code you have above, you would need to change that "alt" part to:
    alt="<?php echo $alttext['alt']; ?>"

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