Aaress

I’ll try that — thanks for the help!

Thanks, Shannon, for that link. I saw that link earlier, but that script seems to be for adding a specific date and it doesn’t seem to have the restart feature?

I’m looking for something that will let me count down to a specific day of the week and then restart itself.

Hi Andrew,

That’s a very good point, and one that I try to keep in mind when posting on forums. It always drives me crazy when someone asks a question that is related to something I’m looking for too, only to read further that it was addressed by email.

Paulwpxp expertly addressed the questions I had above, so hopefully that will prove helpful to anyone else searching. My other question was an offline topic, so wouldn’t prove helpful to anyone searching the forums.

Thanks for the help!

Also, I just sent you an email with another question.

Hi Vee,

I actually had to hire a developer to fix the issue. I’m not sure what he did, but he managed to solve the issue.

Thanks! That plugin worked great. I appreciate your help!

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the help! I used that and it worked great! I appreciate it!

That worked GREAT! Thanks so much!

I do have another similar question that hopefully you or someone else could help me with solving. Is it possible to display an image thumbnail based off the tag used in the post?

For example, the site is showing a list of recent posts. but instead of the thumbnail image displaying the featured image, I want it to automatically show an image associated with a tag.

I saw an example code here for categories, but don’t know how to tweak it for tags:

<?php
   if (  (function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail())  ) {
      the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail');
   } else { ?>
      <img src="whatever/directory/<?php $category = get_the_category(); echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?>.jpg" /> <?php }
   endif;
} ?>

Here’s the current code that I have on the site, which I’d like to modify to show the tagged image:

<ul class="recent">
			<?php $recent = new WP_Query('showposts=' . $post_num . ' '); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
			<li>
			<?php if (  (function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail())  ) { /* if post has a thumbnail */ ?>
			<div class="home-story-cat">
				<div class="img-contain">
					<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="img-shadow"><?php the_post_thumbnail('home-thumb'); ?></a>
				</div><!--img-contain-->
				<div class="story-text">
					<div class="cat-small"><?php the_tags(); ?></div>
					<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
					<?php content(20, __('Read more &raquo;')); ?>
				</div><!--story-text-->
			</div><!--home-story-cat-->
			<?php } else { ?>
			<div class="home-story-cat">
				<div class="story-text-noimg">
					<div class="cat-small"><?php the_category(); ?></div>
					<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
					<?php content(20, __('Read more &raquo;')); ?>
				</div><!--story-text-->
			</div>
			<?php } ?>
			</li>
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			</ul>

Thank you!!!

I just figured it out!

Turns out, the script will only crop correctly IF an image is uploaded through WordPress. All the posts that I just used regular image links without uploading to the media gallery failed to show correctly.

Thanks, esmi, for your reply. Do you know of a good forum I could try?

Rachel,

The first method worked great. Thanks so much!

Kind regards,

Aaress
https://www.needgod.com

Hi techfeedlab,

Thanks for your reply. I did try using the latest timthumb code, but that didn’t fix the problem. Also, I did check and my site’s not set for PHP safe mode.

Thanks so much for the help, alchymyth. I do have another question. I’ve never used body_class functions before, so how would I implement this code into the template?

Here’s a pastebin of the code used in this section of the header.php file.

https://pastebin.com/LnY4CC5T

Thanks!!!

Slight update — the theme had some issues when I just tried to upgrade it to 3.1, so it’s now running 3.0.5