Featured image doesn't show up with the excerpt with the new recipe plug in

Hi there,

You can use a child theme, and include the code above inside the functions.php file.

You can find a blank child theme to install here: https://generatepress.com/api/themes/generatepress_child.zip

Let me know if that works or not ??

Thanks Tom!

So if I install the child theme now,what will happen to the content, plugins and the settings that I currently have? Will they automatically get transferred or I’ll have to do anything specific? Also, Do I have to reinstall the GP premium plugins or what?

I don’t know much about the technical stuff.

Thanks and wish you a very happy new year 2015! ??

Everything will stay the same – the one thing you may need to do is re-set your “Theme Location” in “Appearance > Menus”.

I also suggest keeping a tab open with your “Appearance > Widgets” page as a reference, just in case widgets get messed up – but they absolutely shouldn’t.

Content, settings and plugins won’t be touched at all ??

Happy New Year!

Hi, I wasn’t active on my site for a while. But today I installed the child theme and added the code I wanted for the image and it works. The widgets, menu, footer and the header did get messed up and did not change to the earlier settings even after importing the files that I exported and saved before install.

Did I miss something? was I suppose to do anything else other than just download the child theme in the link above, install and activate?

I just saw another thread in your forum which talked about importing and some coding stuff in relation to child theme- https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/child-theme-121?replies=11

I did not do anything, just activated the zipfile you gave. I had to fix the widget, menu, header and footer though. But it looks OK now.

I don’t see any codes in the function.php and style.css files except /*some statements*/. Again, what did I miss? Did I need to import codes from the parent theme I was using before?

Thanks.

If all you did was install a child theme, then you shouldn’t have had to do anything at all other than install and activate it.

The menu usually has to be re-set when themes are changed, but the widgets, header and footer shouldn’t have changed at all – what exactly happened to them?

Yes, I just downloaded the zipfile from the link you gave, installed and activated.

Earlier I had SM icons in the header, which moved to the footer.
Any widgets that I had in footer, disappeared from there.
Widgets from the right sidebar either changed location or disappeared from there.

Although they all went back to the available widgets but preserved the content/links. So I just had to drag and drop them back to their previous locations.

Weird, usually that doesn’t happen between child themes and parent themes, but I know it can between two different themes completely.

Sorry about that – hopefully it’s all back to normal now ??

Yes, I thought so too. But the problem wasn’t that big. I just had to drag and drop them back to their previous locations. It is back to normal now.

One more thing, I don’t see any theme’s inc/template-tags.php file and any codes in the function.php and style.css files except /*some statements*/. I was recommended to add some codes following codes to make my recipe posts act ac regular posts, but now I don’t know where should I add those-
Where do I add them now ??

For the categories and author try editing your theme’s inc/template-tags.php file.
On line 227 you have
if ( ‘post’ !== get_post_type() )
Change this to
if ( ‘post’ !== get_post_type() && ‘recipe’ !== get_post_type() )

In your theme’s content.php file on line 17 you have
`<?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() ) : ?>
Change this to
<?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() || ‘recipe’ == get_post_type() ) : ?>

And basically the same thing on line 47:
<?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() ) : // Hide category and tag text for pages on Search ?>

Thanks

You won’t want to change those in the parent theme as you’ll lose the changes when you update the theme.

You’ll need to copy these files from the “generatepress” folder, and then add them into your child theme in their respective directories.

content.php should be in the root of your child theme, and template-tags.php should be in a folder named “inc”.

Doing this will also mean that you won’t get any of the changes I make to either of these files – your theme will use your files and ignore my new ones.

Thanks! Sounds like I’ll have to give up a lot for this one plugin ??
One more thing, if I understand right, I don’t have to copy any file from the generate press folder to the child theme if I’m not making any changes to them. And even if those directories look blank in the child theme, I’ll be getting all your updates? right?

That’s correct ??

Hi there, you should try easy recipe plugin.
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/easyrecipe/

I use it on my site using GeneratePress, the only catch is you have to deactivate the plug in while your editing in the customizer.