image above title of post

Just put the image in the title of the post.

I don’t think that would work. Did you try it, Evita?

Yes moshu, I tried it local before I posted my answer.
If this is not normally in WP, so maybe it works because I deleted the wp-autop in the functions.php?

My plugin can let you do this:

https://guff.szub.net/2006/02/09/post-image/

Here is how to do it without a plugin:

1- Start a post in wordpress

2- Under custom fields create a key titled “img_post_header” or something similar

3- For the value, insert the location of the image

4- If you want more image atributes (such as alt text), make more keys and remember what they are called

5- Save/publish that stuff

6- Open /wp-content/themes/[themename]/index.php, after the <div class=”post”> but before the <h2> title (should be around line 9), add this line:

<img src=”<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘img_post_header’, true);?>” width=”600″ height=”200″ />

Of course edit width and height to your specifications. If say you wanted to make the post title the alt text add: alt=”<?php the_title(); ?>” inside the img tag

It took me some time to come up with this, and I hope it helps someone out there.

marktastic, great work around… I am having some problems implementing it to do what I want though, and I’d much appreciate if somebody could help me…

I don’t want it to try and load an image unless I’ve actually specified one, I get that I should use some kind of “if” but no idea how.

Also, using “alt” and custom width and height must be easy, I suppose? Do I just add more custom fields and call them with something similar to “<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘img_post_header’, true);?>”?

// This statement checks to see if img_post_header exists and then if it does, write the img tag:

<?php
if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'img_post_header', true))
{ ?>

// We jump out of php to show the img tag. If you wanted you could do a print function instead, but this is how I did it.

// I added an example of a specified alt text (the key was img_post_header_alt). If you want to do width and height make keys for them and add them the same way (make new keys). I would think it would be more ideal to have the width/height constant, but if it’s what you need then go for it:

<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'img_post_header', true);?>" width="600" height="200" alt="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'img_post_header_alt', true); ?>" />

// This closes the if statement

<?php } ?>

Hope it helps!
-Mark

Thanks. That helped a lot.