Very Advanced custom theme question re featured images for categories

  • wayneconnor

    (@wayneconnor)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    I have a theme called sliding door.
    http://mac-host.com/slidingdoor
    It has 7 images that slide in the header, each being a link to a post.
    So for each ‘slider’ there is an image and a link.

    The links are selected from the wordpress custom menu.
    The images are uploaded via featured image in a post.

    In the previous version it was done with manual ftp uploads, and the links were put in via theme options page, but the theme checkers suggested I do it via thumbnails and custom menus.

    The problem is that categories, which can be selected in the custom menu’s, don’t have featured images. Is there a way to assign a featured image to a category???

    Can anyone think of another way round this problem?

    Wayne

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  • Thread Starter wayneconnor

    (@wayneconnor)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    PS

    the code for the header is this:

    <div id="imageMenu">
				<?php
				$walker = new My_Walker;
				wp_nav_menu( array(
				'theme_location' => 'custom-sliding-menu',
				'fallback_cb' => 'no_sliding_menu',
				'container' => '',
				'container_class' =>'',
				'container_id' =>'',
				'menu_class' =>'',
				'menu_id' =>'',
				'depth' => '1',
				'walker' => $walker
				)
				); ?>

			</div>
    Thread Starter wayneconnor

    (@wayneconnor)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    the code for my walker is this:

    class My_Walker extends Walker_Nav_Menu
{
var $item_count = 0;

function end_el(&$output, $item, $depth) {
		$output .= "";
	}

	/**
	 * @param string $output Passed by reference. Used to append additional content.
	 * @param object $item Menu item data object.
	 * @param int $depth Depth of menu item. Used for padding.
	 * @param int $current_page Menu item ID.
	 * @param object $args
	 */
    function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) {
        global $wp_query,$item_count;
        $indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';

        $class_names = $value = '';

        $classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
		$classes[] = 'menu-item-' . $item->ID;

		if($item_count <= 5){
			if(isset($item->object_id)) {
			<strong>$thumbnailid = (int)$item->object_id;
			$thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail_url( $thumbnailid );</strong>
			} else {
			$thumbnail = 'http://mac-host.com/slidingdoor/slidingdoor.jpg';
			}

        $class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item ) );
        $class_names = ' class="bk'.(int)$item_count.'" ';

        $output .= $indent . '<li id="menu-item-'. $item->ID . '"' . $value . $class_names .'>';

		$attributes = ! empty( $item->url )        ? ' href="'   . esc_attr( $item->url        ) .'"' : '';

		$item_output = $args->before;
       <strong> $item_output = '<a' . $attributes .' style="background: url(\'' . $thumbnail. '\') repeat scroll 0%;">';</strong>
        $item_output .=  apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID );
		$item_output .= '</a>';
 		$item_output .= "</li>\n";

        $output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
        }
        if($item_count == 6){
			if(isset($item->object_id)) {
			$thumbnailid = (int)$item->object_id;
			$thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail_url( $thumbnailid );
			} else {
			$thumbnail = 'http://mac-host.com/slidingdoor/slidingdoor.jpg';
			}

         $class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item ) );
        $class_names = ' class="bk'.(int)$item_count.'" ';

 $output .= $indent . '<li class="bk6" id="menu-item-'. $item->ID . '"' . $value . $class_names .'>';

		$attributes = ! empty( $item->url )        ? ' href="'   . esc_attr( $item->url        ) .'"' : '';

		$item_output = $args->before;
        $item_output = '<a' . $attributes .' style="background: url(\'' . $thumbnail. '\') repeat scroll 0%;">';
        $item_output .=  apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID );
		$item_output .= '</a>';
 		$item_output .= "</li>\n";

        $output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
        }

    $item_count ++;
	}
}
    magdacn

    (@magdacn)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hello, I am Brazilian.
    I’m using your theme and would like to know if this problem has a solution.
    I can not link the images to the categories.
    Is there a way?

    I’m still in the testing phase.

    http://blog.cancaonova.com/alemdaneblina

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