Featured images

Hi Lyk,
that doubled-up image is a feature of the theme, although I see that’s exactly how the Twenty Thirteen and Fourteen themes work.
Getting the importer to delete the now redundant image is not straightforward is it currently geared up to just replace the file location not the whole image tag.
I am making some changes around that area so I’ll have a think about how this might be incorporated but effectively those new themes mean that this feature of the importer is not of use.
The reason I’ve not spotted this before is that my theme just shows the excerpt rather than the whole post so I get a thumbnail exceprt
Cheers,
Andy

Hello Andy,

Yes, it is theme related, but it is quite probable that a theme shows the featured image at the top of each post (probably in some different/special way)

I was thinking that it might be easy to be done by tweaking the part that:

updates the html in the post to point at the new images

So something like:

if ($imgcount == 0)
{
    // update the html in the post with nothing, i.e. omit the matched regular expr
    set_post_thumbnail($post_id, $att_id);
} else {
    // update the html in the post to point at the new images.
}

But apparently it is not as simple as it looks.

I also did some searching for some plugin that just removes the first image from every post, but have not find something yet. This should be simple but I am really new in wordpress ?? . Such a plugin will do the job right?

Apart from that, I found this https://setwordpress.com/2011/09/29/how-to-remove-first-image-from-wordpress-posts/
but for some reason it does not work for me.
Moreover, -if I got it right- this will not really change the content of the posts and will only change the way they appear (on the fly each time). Which is not very good.

PS: it also seems that there is a redundant condition in the if(), unless I really miss something?

Thank you!

If you combine those two ideas you should have something that works.

The regular expression used for detecting images is

<img[^>]*src\=([\”‘`])([^\> ]*?)\\1[^>]*>

The post content at this point in the code is held in $postcontent

I guess you are talking about the code in the functions.php ?

Yes, maybe I try that as a temp solution for a while..

Update: I tried with the regex you wrote but it seems to match everything, i.e. all the post is removed apart from the featured image.

The regex in the link works. I hadn’t notice before because I was checking the homepage. So it works for every post, but the problem still shows up in the homepage.