[Plugin: Custom Post Widget] Featured Image doesn't work?

Hi Johan,

I apologize if the tone of my message came across as rude; I was more confused than anything. Due to the fact that the thread I referenced was never resolved, and I am having the exact same issue as the others in that thread, all signs seemed to point to the Featured Image issue never being fixed. (Which would have been very frustrating to find out after the fact … I apologize for assuming that was the case!) I’m glad to hear the issue is with my code after all and not with the plugin, since hopefully that means it can be fixed. I really appreciate any help you can offer.

I am working with a custom theme on my localhost. Plugin version 1.9.5. WordPress version 3.4.1. I have created a post of the Content Block type and attached a Featured Image to it. I have added a “Content Block” widget to my sidebar and selected the Content Block that I created. The title and body copy of that post show up correctly in my sidebar, but even after adding the above code to my functions.php there is no image. I tried checking/unchecking the “Show Post Title” and the “Do not apply content filters” options, just in case. Here is the code that is being output from the widget:

<li class="widget widget_custom_post_widget" id="custom_post_widget-3">
<h2 class="widgettitle">Sidebar – About</h2>
Lorem ipsum dolor.</li>

In my template file, I am calling the sidebar with:

<?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar'); ?>

In my code from functions.php, if I insert an echo after this line:

if (current_theme_supports('post-thumbnails')) {

The echo is output at the beginning of the_content on all of my regular blog posts and my custom post types, but not anywhere in the sidebar. If I insert another echo after this line:

if ('content_block' == get_post_type()) {

It isn’t output anywhere.

Some of the other plugins that I’m using are:

1. Advanced Custom Fields
2. Advanced Excerpt (I just tried deactivating it but it made no difference.)
3. Custom Post Type UI
4. WYSIWYG Widgets

I can’t think of anything else that could be relevant; I hope that is helpful. Thanks so much!

Hi Johan,

I am actually extensively using Featured Images already in my posts without issue. I’m quite familiar with how they work … my code in the first post does show that I am already using the add_theme_support function.

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 583, 999, false );
add_image_size( 'dbl-col-img', 264, 999, false );
add_image_size( 'img-slider', 583, 350, true );

Also I am assuming that if Featured Images weren’t activated for the Content Block post type, I don’t think the Featured Image metabox would even be available on those posts would they?

Hi Johan,

I just tested it with the Twenty Eleven theme and it has the same behaviour. Here is the code output by the sidebar:

<div role="complementary" class="widget-area" id="secondary">
<aside class="widget widget_custom_post_widget" id="custom_post_widget-4">
<h3 class="widget-title">Sidebar – About</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>
</aside>
</div>

And for reference, the code I pasted into functions.php; tried it at both the very top and the very bottom.

function InsertFeaturedImage($content) {
    global $post;
    $original_content = $content;
    if (current_theme_supports('post-thumbnails')) {
        if ('content_block' == get_post_type()) {
            $content = the_post_thumbnail('medium');
            $content .= $original_content;
        }
    }
    return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'InsertFeaturedImage');

I also just tried deactivating ALL other plugins to no effect. 🙁

Thanks for your help. It’s too bad you aren’t able to replicate it. Seems from my testing that this part of the code is not firing:

if ('content_block' == get_post_type()) {
            $content = the_post_thumbnail('medium');
            $content .= $original_content;
        }

When I insert an echo in there it isn’t output anywhere.

Johan you are an absolute star!! It works perfectly. Thanks so much for all your hard work. 🙂