Archiving with pictures

  • Hi, I couldn’t find this on my search through the forums, so I hope this isn’t an addressed issue.

    I am using the WP as a means for my webcomic. I post the comic pages as “posts” like a blog, with timestamps so that they pop up when I want.

    What I am confused about is the “recent post” list. If I click on any of the “recent posts”, it shows the text from the post, but leaves out the uploaded image file, which, for the front page while the post is current, shows up fine.

    How do I get the “recent posts” to display the image?

    or perhaps make a thumbnail-based archive that links to the posts?

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  • Very Strange. It looks like your archive page might be filtering images out of the posts. You may want to use a different archive page template. I’ll look into this for you.

    breegeek,
    correct the URL in your profile here – it has a typo

    harknell,
    nothing strange in it. If that link goes to an “archive” view – most themes by default have the_excerpt in the Loop and not the_content. A brief reading would solve the “mystery”…

    Thread Starter breegeek

    (@breegeek)

    Im sorta confused as to how to implement things about “the LOOP”. Do I have to stick it in every style page?

    Define “stylepage”… (because there is nothing like that in WP)
    You don’t have to worry about the Loop: if your blog works – the Loop is in its right place. As you can see by clicking on the link, the Loop is just a portion of the code in your template files.

    What you need to look at (and I said it above): if the archives do not display images, links (any kind of html tags) – then read the article linked from my previous post. I know you didn’t, otherwise you wouldn’t ask about the Loop.

    you need to change the_excerpt to the_content
    in your theme’s template(s)

    probably in the category.php and maybe some archives template, and maybe in your Search Results template. Just 2 or 3 or 4 places to change it should cover your whole site. It’s probably already the_content in the main index template. It definitely should be the_content in your Single Post template already although your first post made me wonder.

    Thread Starter breegeek

    (@breegeek)

    Hmm I guess I should try to figure out how to make a seperate archives page as well, because since its a webcomic, the oldest entries should be accessible, but a really long list with full content for each thing could be a problem

    there’s good info about Templates in the codex

    basically you can copy an existing template and rename it according to the Template Hierarchy. in the copied-and-renamed one, you can change whatever you need to, about the order of the posts, number of posts in the query, the layout, whether it’s excerpt or the_content, etc.

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