Customizing Thumbnail vs Featured Image

  • Resolved vladimirknight

    (@vladimirknight)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Greets!

    I’m building a comic-focused site with Comic Easel integration. I AM, however, struggling with image posts (that are separate to comics).

    The set-up at the moment is this:
    Header
    Comic
    Featured post carousel (with thumbnail, and show full content on)
    Regular posts grid (with thumbnails and excerpt)

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    What I WANT to do is this:
    Add an image to the Featured post (Image format)
    Have it display on the front page with a thumbnail
    Once in-post, have the image full-size (not cropped or scaled)
    Have the option to scale it to 50% or smaller if need be (we’re talking large thousand-pixel-plus images)
    Have the in-post scaled down version clickable, which takes the reader to the gallery page, or the attachment page

    Now, I know how to do all those things individually, but not in combination. What I’ve done so far is modify the theme to display thumbnail_large on the front page and the full image in-post, which is somewhat acceptable.
    What I WANT, though, is more control over the images and how/ where they’re displayed.

    If I set a Featured Image and use the Image post format, it gives me a thumbnail on the front page and displays the image in the post, which is great. However, I don’t think I have the ability to scale it down for huge images, OR link to the gallery/attachment pages.

    If I disable the Featured Image thumbnail on the front page, I can insert the image directly into the content of the post. It will still shop up on the front page (because it shows full content) and I can have all the link and scaling controls I like (using a smaller image and adding manual links, etc). This option hides all the OTHER non-featured post thumbnails on the front page though.

    If I use a Standard Post format and set a Featured Image, then also insert custom images into the post, the home page gets a nice thumbnail and ALSO the inserted in-post image.

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    That was a little ramble-y, sorry. I guess what I’m asking is whether there’s a way to prevent an image inside a post from displaying on the front page. Or add multiple featured images, one of which could be displayed on the front page in thumbnail form and another which appears on the individual post page.

    Is there a combination of settings inside the theme, or WordPress itself, which would work? Or a plug-in (or several)? I’ve spent the entire day on this and I’m feeling somewhat frazzled.
    I hope your wisdom and experience can help me find a way!

    Thank you so much for your time. <3

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  • Hi,

    The Home page will show your featured image.

    In your single post view, you can select post format.
    Select image post format if you want to show featured image.

    This theme does not support multiple featured image.

    Please take a look at this article to understand the features available in this theme.
    https://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/236-first-steps-with-the-hueman-wordpress-theme

    The following is a collection of all the available documentation for this theme.
    https://docs.presscustomizr.com/collection/224-hueman-theme

    You can hire a developer from https://jobs.wordpress.net if you require customization assistance.

    Or you can make a feature request at Hueman Theme’s github.
    The theme author will decide if he is going to implement your request.

    Thank you

    Thread Starter vladimirknight

    (@vladimirknight)

    Hi Denzel, thank you for your reply and for bearing with me.

    I had some sleep, cleared my head and figured everything out. Fresh eyes really do help!

    For anyone else interested in the future, I assigned all images in a post that I didn’t want to see on the homepage a unique class – hideonhome. Very creative, I must say.

    Then with some simple CSS, you can disable that class from being visible on the home page:

    body.home .hideonhome {
  display:none ; }

    This way the featured image is visible on the home page AND any image with that class, fully modifiable, will be seen inside the post but not on the homepage.

    Simple, and took me minutes to both discover and implement this morning.

    Apologies for asking something beyond your scope to answer, Denzel. Appreciate your response nevertheless. <3

    Hi,

    You are welcome!
    Thank you

    When you say “post” do you mean page? Hueman automatically shows a page’s featured image as the first image of the page and if that image has a caption, displays the caption in white over the image.

    I fixed this by adding a child theme and removing <?php hu_get_template_part('parts/page-image'); ?> from page.php

    Then you can add the image to the page as a normal image and control sizing in this way. I had a problem with gallery pages showing the featured image on the single page view on my website and this fixes it. You don’t have to worry about assigning classes to images as you upload them. Here’s my gallery pages as an example of this: https://tyler.provick.ca/gallery/

    Thread Starter vladimirknight

    (@vladimirknight)

    No no, I meant posts. The problem I has was specifically because the front page had both regular and featured posts, and the featured posts were set to display full content.

    Some of the images are very, VERY large though and I wanted the option to use a scaled-down version that would take you to the attachment on-click. Since I couldn’t do that directly, I planned to add an image regularly into the post content itself – separate from the Featured image and thumbnail.

    BUT THEN it would display two images on the homepage – one from the featured image carousel and once more the image inside the post.

    Since I wanted readers to see the thumbnail on the homepage and the scaled down image inside the post (and not both, since they’re the same) I just needed a way to hide the image on the homepage.

    I just realised today though that all the changes I’ve made have been to the original theme files and not a child theme, though. Whoops. =/

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