Display post thumbnails

First, I assume you have support enabled for Post Thumbnails in functions.php?

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

Then, in your output code (as linked above), you need to call the_post_thumbnail(), e.g.:

foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><p><strong><?php the_title(); ?>::</strong><br />
<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ); ?>
<?php the_excerpt_rss(20,1); ?> </p></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Chip.

Thanks for responding so quickly.

I am using the twenty ten theme. I checked the function.php and it did contain the add_ theme_support code in it.

I added you code to the featured-post.php that is populating the page and i still get no thumbnails.

Is there something i need to be doing at the time i upload an image to create the thumbnail? I kinda thought that all of those were created at upload time?

Have you defined a “Featured Image” for the posts for which you wish to display the Post Thumbnail?

Yes i have.

Can you post pastebins of

1) The PHP file in question
2) The rendered HTML output

[Edited – Know how Chip mentioned pastebin? Yeah. Large code excerpt removed by moderator per forum rules. Please use the pastebin for all large code excerpts. It works better anyway.]

https://pastebin.com/kxspdXJv

The the_post_thumbnail() just isn’t outputting anything at all.

Try replacing this:

<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ); ?>

With this:

<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'post-thumbnail' ); ?>

Or even this:

<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

And see if you get anything output.

Still nothing. ??

i found a plugin called Thumbnail For Excerpts.
i is supposed to add thumbnails to excerpts.
If the post has not thumbnail then it displays a default image.

On all the posts being displayed on that page, that have excerpts, the plug in displays the default image. does that mean the posts don’t have a thumbnail relative to them?
They have featured images.

arrgghhh

What is a “default image”?

I would assume that this behavior means that the Posts in question do not, in fact, have an assigned “Featured Image”.

To find out: go to the post-edit screen for each of the Posts, and ensure that an image is defined in the “Featured Image” metabox in the right-hand sidebar.

I checked that and they all hvae the featured image assigned.

Default image is just an image provided by the plugin that acts as a place holder if there is no thumbnail assigned to the post.

also i went to my uploads folder and each image uploaded has three versions

one at 80×150
one at 214×300
and
One at 234×300

and of coarse the original.

Can you post your functions.php file in a Pastebin?

Primarily, I’m looking for anything like the following:

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
set_post_thumbnail_size();
add_image_size();

also.
I just went in and removed the featured image and replaced it to no avail.

https://pastebin.com/c9qkjNr2

Also i don’t know if this makes a difference but the featured-post.php lives inside a folder in the theme folder named php