I have been going crazy trying to figure this out and the theme developer is absolutely no help. Waited a week for him to say he wouldn't help.

I have this code:

PHP Code:

<?php         $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => 6, 'paged' => $paged ) );         echo '<div id="ajax-container"><div id="ajax-inner">';         while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>             <div class="blog-post">             <div class="featuredImageHolder">                 <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) the_post_thumbnail( 'full', array( 'class' => "featuredImage", ) ); ?>                 <div class="justBlogHolder">                     <div class="blog_title">                         <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>                         <p class="blog_excerpt"><?php echo the_excerpt(); ?></p>                         <a class="blog-icon" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"> Read More &raquo; </a>                     </div>                 </div>                 <div class="blog_metainfo">                      </div>                 </div>             </div>         <?php endwhile; ?>

That code shows a large image(featured image) on the archive page of the blog, with the title and an excerpt overlay for each post.
I need to know what I can change to make it grab just the title (and the excerpt if possible) if there is no featured image chosen.

The blog was moved from blogger so all images are in the posts (over 300 of them) but none are considered "attached" in WP.

We are slowly going through adding the featured images but need this workaround while we do.

Thanks,
~C

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I would love to be able to help you this time, Christina, but, as you know, I am still in the learning stages of WP. I am sure there is someone on the forums who can give you the needed advice.
Wendy Burney

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Errrr .... Would something like this help?

<?php
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => 6, 'paged' => $paged ) );
echo '<div id="ajax-container"><div id="ajax-inner">';
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
<div class="blog-post">
<div class="blog_title">
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p class="blog_excerpt"><?php echo the_excerpt(); ?></p>
<a class="blog-icon" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"> Read More &raquo; </a>
</div>


//php if/then statement to determine if there is a featuredImage//


<div class="featuredImageHolder">

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) the_post_thumbnail( 'full', array( 'class' => "featuredImage", ) ); ?>
<div class="justBlogHolder">

</div>

<div class="blog_metainfo">
</div>
</div>
</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>



.... which is obviously not complete, but I'm suggesting making the process dependent on the title, rather than the image ...

Make any sense?

(Just digging the adventure, here!)

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Don't know if you still need help with this but a good work around for pulling featured image from post is:

Put in your functions.php file and your theme automatically sets it to the first available image


function autoset_featured() {
global $post;
$already_has_thumb = has_post_thumbnail($post->ID);
if (!$already_has_thumb) {
$attached_image = get_children( "post_parent=$post->ID&post_type=attachment&post_ mime_type=image&numberposts=1" );
if ($attached_image) {
foreach ($attached_image as $attachment_id => $attachment) {
set_post_thumbnail($post->ID, $attachment_id);
}
}
}
} //end function
add_action('the_post', 'autoset_featured');
add_action('save_post', 'autoset_featured');
add_action('draft_to_publish', 'autoset_featured');
add_action('new_to_publish', 'autoset_featured');
add_action('pending_to_publish ', 'autoset_featured');
add_action('future_to_publish' , 'autoset_featured');


Hope this helps.

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Lee Drozak

What Theme is it or is it completely custom?

@Lee That WOULD work except for the whole "transferred the posts" thing. None of the images are officially attached to the posts so it can't pull the first post image- tried that.

The theme is Fluence. Somewhat customized but not tons. I know it should be a simple IF/THEN statement but my head will not wrap around the PHP syntax- guess there's too much HTML/CSS/WP up in the ole' brainbox, won't make room for any more. LOL

Any other ideas? Where's codehead when you need him :-) ?

~C

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Sorry Christina, that's all I got! I will wait for codehead to answer then snag the code for my save for later, cannot figure it out file.

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Lee Drozak

@Lee LOL
Exactly what I plan to do.
If there weren't so many posts to deal with I would just trudge through it but, having over 300 and then having to do it again on clients copycat non-english site- Just don't want to :-)

~C

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