Thanks for getting back to me Pubudu. I have not explained my problem clearly.
I have posts without any images. In a single post page, these posts display fine — headline and text. Thats all I have, thats all I want displayed. But in magazine form autogenerated posts,’image not available’ images appear above these posts . Of course images are not available. I didn’t have an image to support the post. And I do not want an image to support any view of the post, particularly not an image that says ‘image not available.’
In a world in which more and more people are paying attention to copyright, I cannot afford to run a blog and ‘steal’ uncleared images. Since Creative Commons helps out a lot with images, I have modified the featured-image-caption plug-in to provide an ideal Creative Commons photo attribution, as well as a caption. In spite of this, it is simply not possible for me to find or shoot images for all my posts.
To avoid displaying these unwanted ‘image not available’ images, I have temporarily stripped all your references to thumbnail-default and mini-thumbnail default from your files — thats approximately three lines of code in approx. twenty places over approx. ten files. Hardly an ideal situation. Particularly if I have to repeat it for every update.
In a future release, helping my blog look more professional (without all these unnecessary ‘image not available’ images) could be accomplished by a simple switch to turn on or off display of these images, either a general switch for all or a post-specific switch (better).
Incidentally, when I want and am actually using featured images, together with photo captions below them, the ‘featured-image-post’ plugin allows captions to be posted only below single blogs. This is great, because a photo attribution with three links — photo, artist, and license — cluttters up smaller auto-generated posts horribly in two and three block auto-generated magazine pages, particularly since your auto-generation code strips out formatting which I use to reduce the size of the caption.
However, some of your smallest auto-generated posts — (which call in the mini-thumbnail-default) are seen by the ‘featured-image-post’ plugin as single posts. So the caption is left in on these tiny magazine posts, producing an absolutely horrible mess. The unwanted featured image caption is displayed as virtual nonsense, it is so large and lengthy compared to the tiny images. That means I can’t use your smallest post images at all, though at the moment, everything else is working for me.
Ensuring that captions do not display on these smallest posts (including the ‘you might be interested in the following’ posts) would be really useful. I’ve noticed that your code is a little bit different around these posts, but haven’t tried to figure out why they display, when others don’t.
