Support » Theme: Tracks » Featured Image?

  • I tried the Tracks Theme, but I don’t understand the concept of ‘Featured Images’?

    All of my posts appeared without any images. I can’t believe that I would have to enter a ‘featured image’ on every post (there are thousands) in order for this to work?

    What am I missing?

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  • Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    Thanks for using Tracks!

    This is how all WordPress themes work. An image needs to be set as the Featured Image for the theme to be able to select it and give it more prominence on the page.

    The only alternative is to display your full post content on the homepage, and then any images included will be displayed. Due to the layout of the Tracks theme, it doesn’t include this option, but all of our other themes include the option to display full posts instead of excerpts: https://wordpress.org/themes/author/bensibley/

    Thread Starter jgwalter930

    (@jgwalter930)

    Ben, thanks for the quick response.

    I found your theme via the website, https://blog.aaronmphotography.com/

    I like many of the pages on this site, but the blog was the only one with a reference to the theme used.

    I guess I understand now the approach you are taking to only publish an ‘excerpt’ of the post. In the redesign of my site, I have been trying to source my all of my photos from Envira gallery, as their plugin for Adobe Lightroom is essential to my workflow.

    When I tried to choose a ‘Featured’ photo, choosing the ‘photos on this post’ option did not produce any results.

    My posts have several different types of photo content. Some are individual photos, some are galleries, some are albums of photos.

    I think I will consider your method, and give it another try.

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    Thanks for understanding. It is a difficult issue because manually setting the Featured Images would take a long time but there isn’t a good way to automate it either.

    I did a little digging and it looks like this plugin could be helpful: https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-featured-images/

    It lets you assign Featured Images to posts in bulk. It’s not a perfect solution, but it would let you quickly get a Featured Image of some kind added to every post.

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