Thumbnail photo for blog excerpt?

  • Resolved deeza

    (@deeza)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m developing a client site which includes a blog and am using the free Pure and Simple template. I would like the blog page, which has many postings listed on it, to also have each post display a thumbnail version of the photo from within the posting.

    I haven’t been able to figure out how to get this to work. I’ve tried changing all of the blog layout and summary styles from the customize section.

    Here’s a link to the blog: http://deannaradford.net/wordpress/blog

    Details:
    – I’ve set the first posting on the top of the blog page to the “Quote” option within the actual post

    – I imported all blog posts using a plugin from client’s previous site and imported the posts to my development site too. The photos seem to have been embedded in the post and I haven’t added them anew to the media library.

    – My blog settings in the Pure & Simple Basic Settings / Customize section:
    * page width: full
    * blog layout with right sidebar
    * blog summary style 3
    * excerpt length 300

    The first posting at the top of the blog page also doesn’t show the excerpt but entire posting and I want it show a 300 word excerpt only.

    Can you please help?!
    Thank you,
    Deanna

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  • Theme Author Styled Themes

    (@gejay)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there,

    You can follow this steps to show excerpt content of post.

    1> First you need to make sure you have placed content on Excerpt metabox
    How to add excerpt on post

    2>After adding excerpt content Go to dashboard->Appearance->Customize->Basic setting-> Select Excerpt on Content or Excerpt section.

    3> You can also change except length by adding length on Excerpt Length section

    Finally you will be able to show excerpt content on homepage

    Hope this works for you n also let us know how it goes

    Thanks

    Thread Starter deeza

    (@deeza)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the details about the excerpt. I’m still trying to figure out how to display the thumbnail photos and haven’t had luck.

    Here’s the page: http://www.evolutionpsychologycenter.ca/testimonial

    I’m using the Jetpack Testimonal function and contacted them for help. After testing, they found that thumbnail images show when using a regular WordPress template with my settings outlined above. Can you please take one more look into this to see if there’s a way to make images display on the following page?

    http://www.evolutionpsychologycenter.ca/testimonial

    Thanks so much for taking the time.
    Best wishes,
    Deanna

    Theme Author Styled Themes

    (@gejay)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi deeza,

    Add this code somewhere in content-archive.php template[Make sure you are customizing that template on child theme so your changes will not overwrite on theme update ] as per your requirement.
    `<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) :
    the_post_thumbnail();
    endif; ?>`
    Then You can simply set featured image on that particular post, which will display that images on your required testimonial page.

    Note: If you are not technically sound on wordpress , you need to take help from developer.

    Thanks

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