Get_posts, random posts, and thumbnails

  • Hello again

    At the top of my single pages, a narrow horizontal template displays 5 random links.

    <?php global $post;
$rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand');
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>

[DISPLAY]

<?php endforeach; ?>

    Works fine BUT : I need to display the title AND the thumbnail of the post.

    ? I do get five random titles and links.

    ? But the_post_thumbail() returns the thumbnail for the single page I am on (remember, we are on my single pages). It obviously draws info from the query, not from the “get_posts”. Result : I have the five same pictures at the top of my page (and in the main post as well).

    – What is the good solution ?
    – What does GET_POSTS do that I don’t understand ?

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  • you can get the post id, for instance;

    <?php echo $post->ID; ?>

    and with ‘get_the_post_thumbnail();’ and the id you shold be able to get your thumbnail:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_posts
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_the_post_thumbnail

    I have similar issue, my code is:

    <?php $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&offset=1');
foreach($myposts as $post) :?>
<li class="article">
<?php $thumbID = get_post_thumbnail_id(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img src="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url($thumbID); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
<div class="article-over">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class="postmetadata">
Posted: <?php the_time(__('F jS, Y', 'mytheme')) ?>???
<?php comments_popup_link(__('No Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments'), '', __('Comments Closed') ); ?><br />
<?php printf(__('Filled under: %s'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    but the post thumbnail’s doesn’t display :/

    Can someone help?

    nevermind, I fixed this using the loop.

    how did you fix this?

    instead of:

    <?php $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=2&offset=1');
foreach($myposts as $post) :?>

    he was probably using:

    <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=2&offset=1');
if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop_in_Action

    Did anyone figure this out? I was having a similar problem using query_posts – but nothing was showing up for the post_thumbnail – someone suggested using get_posts, which I tried, but still no thumbnail:

    <?php
 $lastposts = get_posts('category_name=todays-menu', 'numberposts=1');
 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 		<div id="article">
            	<h2>Today's Menu</h2>
		 <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
                <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyten' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a>
        </div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

</div>
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