Choose image to display in Featured Content area

  • Resolved shubharup

    (@shubharup)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Ok so presently the Featured Content section on the homepage shows the thumnbnails of the respective posts.

    What I would like is to have a thumbnail with no text in the picture (like it is right now for “A/V” and “Games”) but a different image (with text) display when the page is opened (like “Worksheets”)

    Right now it’s a mess, because if the Featured Image has text in it (like for “Worksheets”) then that shows up in the Featured Content area, which already has text labels.

    I think either of the following could work:

    1) Modify / manually set the image which shows up in the first panel. Instead of WordPress directly pulling the post’s featured image, set the path to another file on the server.

    2. Modify the specific page (one page at a time, like just for “Worksheets” for now) to display a picture other than the one set as “Featured”.

    My guess would be that the second solution is easier (?). I’m a noob at technical web-dev, any help would be appreciated ??

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  • Hi there!

    Yeah, it’s not a good idea to add text to the feature image as it may be used across your site and there may be instances where it won’t look good – it may get cropped or have text over, as is your case.
    I’d suggest adding a featured image with no text and, if you’d like an image with a text, add that in the body of your page. You can also consider using the cover block if you’re using Gutenberg.
    From the Content Options in the Customizer, you should be able to disable Featured Images on single pages or posts, so there wouldn’t be a duplicated image.

    I hope that helps ??

    Thread Starter shubharup

    (@shubharup)

    Hey thanks, that’s a great solution ?? I disabled Featured Images for Pages, and put in an Image block instead since a Cover block didn’t present the landscape image properly on my phone.

    The problem is that for some reason disabling Featured images also disables thumbnails on Easy Digital Downloads. The EDD store widget on the Worksheets page did not have thumnbnails.

    Hi there,

    I think that EDD rely on featured images to display product images. You can contact them and ask them if there’s a workaround.

    Thread Starter shubharup

    (@shubharup)

    Ok thank you ??

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