Showing Image with Excerpt Revisited

Hi cjackson111,

I ran through the process of adding the thumbnail and hit a couple of snags that might be confusing. So, hopefully these suggestions will help.

1. Add the template attribute

I found that I HAD to add the template attribute. If I didn’t, then the plugin always used its default template in its own directory.

So, for example, if you’re listing all of the posts and you copied the original posts_loop_template.php file to the root of your theme’s directory, your shortcode would look like the following:

[ic_add_posts template=’posts_loop_template.php’]

2. If you’re using a child theme, add your custom template to the parent theme folder (root)

I happened to be testing on an instance with a child theme (twenty fourteen was the parent). Ideally, you would put your custom copy of the template in the child theme folder and never touch the parent theme.

I found that I had to put it in the parent theme folder, and only that one was used. If I put a copy in the child theme folder, it was always ignored. I’ll see about getting this fixed in the next update. ??