Display thumbnails on search results page

Unfortunately, I have not yet coded a way to put in the thumbnails. I’m working on a version that makes this a better and cleaner process.

Right now the only way is to edit better-search.php and add the code in around line 165:

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/better-search/tags/1.3.1/better-search.php

Something like this should work

<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $search->ID, $size, $attr ); ?>

Would like to follow up on this: I tried simply pasting above code into better-search.php using Genesis Dynamik theme, so that the code looks like this:

$output .= '<h2><a href="'.get_permalink($search->ID).'" rel="bookmark">'.$post_title.'</a></h2>';
				$output .= '<p>';
				$output .= get_bsearch_score($search,$score,$topscore);
				$before = __('&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Posted on: ', BSEARCH_LOCAL_NAME);
				$output .= get_bsearch_date($search,$before);
				$output .= '</p>';
				<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $search->ID, $size, $attr ); ?>
				$output .= '<p>';
				$output .= get_bsearch_excerpt($search->ID,$bsearch_settings['excerpt_length']);	// This displays the post excerpt / creates it. Replace with $output .= $content; to use content instead of excerpt
				$output .= '</p>';
			} //end of foreach loop

and unfortunately I get an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /Users/Paul/Documents/Websites/balanga.dev/wp-content/plugins/better-search/better-search.php on line 165

I’m not a coder, but I would love to get your plugin showing small thumbnails with the results. Did I adjust the code wrongly? Could I Beta test the plugin version that you are developing that achieves this?

Cheers

Instead of the code you used, try:

$output .= '<span class="bsearch_thumb">'.get_the_post_thumbnail( $search->ID, $size, $attr ).'</span>';

just tried the code…almost working: i get full sized image rather than thumbnail displaying…

any way to reduce image size so it displays alongside text?

Thanks!

Try the below code. This should pull just the thumbnail version of the image

$output .= '<span class="bsearch_thumb">'.get_the_post_thumbnail( $search->ID, 'thumbnail' ).'</span>';

Cheers Ajay – that worked!
Paul

Glad to know this Paul ??