Criss Swaim

It looks likes this has been fixed. Would you post the correction here in case someone else has this issue. Thanks

in looking at the code that was generated on your site is see

<pre>
<div class="tpg-get-posts">......</div>
</pre>

Go into the page editor, select the text tab and delete the
<pre> and </pre> codes around the shortcode.

If you did a copy/paste of the shortcode from a web page showing the code, then the
<pre> tag can be picked up and it will cause this problem.

Yes the current display is title, feat image (thumbnail), content
To get fi, title, content that requires the extension and is referred to as the featured image layout….fi_layout.

Did you try the above code? You only need the extension if you want the to use the extended features. I am not clear what results your getting from the base plugin.

The fi_layout only is supported with the extension.

So using the base plugin, try

[tpg_get_posts numberposts=1 cat="education-2" orderby="rand" thumbnail_size="full" thumbnail_align="aligncenter" fields="title,content"]

I think aligncenter is a pretty standard class for most themes to center an image

I have seen this problem before, but I can’t recall how it was fixed. So I need to find that conversation. It was a css conflict with a theme or plugin and was rather simple to fix once found.

I will try to find it over the next couple of days and get back to you.

there is a syntax error in your shortcode and missing option:
change
….post_byline=tpg-byline-class,post_thumbnail=false"]
to
….post_byline=tpg-byline-class" thumbnail_size="none"]

you really don’t need the fields or field_class options if you are not overriding the defaults, try:

[tpg_get_posts numberposts=3 thumbnail_size="none"]

Yes, use the fields parameter
the default is fields=”title,byline,content,metadata”
you could use fields=”title,content”
The featured image (thumbnail) is shown by default.

if you want the image stacked on top of the text, use the featured image layout: fi_layout=”true”

On my website, there are examples of the layouts https://www.tpginc.net/wordpress-plugins/plugin-tpg_get_posts/layouts/.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for posting the solution and for the support.

i believe the size for the featured image is set by the theme when the image is loaded. Try reloading the images at the set size.

There are no size parameters for the plugin, but you might be able to wrap a class around the featured image. Look at the source generated and I believe the featured image is wrapped by the tpg-thumbnail-class which can be overridden.

You can set the read me text with an option more_text (I think — doing this from memory), so try more_link_text=”<i class=’mk-moon-eye’/>Read More”

At this time, captions are not supported by the plugin – that I know of. I am surprised at some of the uses others have found for the plugin, so maybe someone has a way of adding captions to the thumbnails.

!Resolved!

In the slideshow plugin, there is an option called ‘Avoid content filter’, by default this is set to yes. Some plugins (not just mine) call the content filter and this apparently breaks the slideshow code.

To correct, go to the Slideshow settings, select slideshow and change the ‘Avoid content filter’ to no. If you want to change the default setting for any new slideshow go to the General settings for the slideshow plugin and set the default.

will you contact me webmaster at tpginc.net. I would like some additional information, but don’t want to post it for all to see.

Also, when you check your shortcode, check it with the text view. It is possible that the visual editor changed the square brackets to the html safe code. #xxx! You would only see this in text mode.