Title: First load without thumbnail
Last modified: January 4, 2020

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# First load without thumbnail

 *  Resolved [Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laucoste/)
 * (@laucoste)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/)
 * Hello,
 * Great plugin ! I have a issue please :
 * My shortcode is :
 * [latest-selected-content perpage=”4″ showpages=”4″ display=”title” titletag=”
   h3″ url=”yes” image=”thumbnail” elements=”27″ css=”four-columns as-overlay light”
   type=”page” status=”publish” orderby=”random” show_extra=”ajax_pagination,light_spinner,
   pagination_all”]
 * When first loading the page, 4 items have a gray thumnail (no image).
    If I click“
   next page”, they do appear. If I come back on the first page, the thumbnails 
   do appear.
 * Why at the first load, something blocks thumbnail ? I use Autoptimize plugin 
   and have excluded the folder :
    wp-content/plugins/latest-post-shortcode/assets/
 * I still have the problem.
    Thanks for you help

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 *  Plugin Author [Iulia Cazan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iulia-cazan/)
 * (@iulia-cazan)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12292586)
 * Hello,
 * The fact that you use the random order might give you results that do not have
   images. Also, the pagination, in this case (when using the random order), is 
   not accurate. Try to set a placeholder image to the shortcode, so that, if the
   images are not found to fallback to the one you specify.
 * I was not able to replicate the issue you mention. Is it possible to have a link
   to the page where you use the shortcode, so I can take a look there?
 * Regards,
    Iulia
 *  Thread Starter [Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laucoste/)
 * (@laucoste)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12292744)
 * Hello Iulia,
 * Thank you for your fast reply,
 * 1/ Your answers:
 * – “The fact that you use the random order might give you results that do not 
   have images.”
    => The posts do have a featured image
 * – “set a placeholder image to the shortcode”
    => Hum, yes, but 3 times the same
   picture side by side is not the best 🙂
 * 2/ For the moment I do not have any live page, so may I share you a precise piece
   of code ?
 * 3/ Could a relation with the lazy loading function from Autoptimize, or a setting
   from Easy FancyBox related to my problem ?
 * 4/ Then, do you have a css setting that allow 5 columns (it seems that 4 is the
   maximum) ?
 * regards,
    Lau
 *  Plugin Author [Iulia Cazan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iulia-cazan/)
 * (@iulia-cazan)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12296584)
 * Hello,
 * I understand. I will try to answer all the points.
 * `The posts do have a featured image` OK, I understand, thanks for checking.
 * `3 times the same picture side by side is not the best` Please upgrade to the
   
   latest version so that you can set multiple placeholders, see more details about
   this at [https://iuliacazan.ro/latest-post-shortcode/#feature4](https://iuliacazan.ro/latest-post-shortcode/#feature4)
 * `For the moment I do not have any live page, so may I share you a precise piece
   of code ?` This would not help me identify the issue, as I have to see the whole
   combination of CSS + JS you run on that page, to see if there is any conflict
   with other libraries.
 * `Could a relation with the lazy loading function from Autoptimize, or a setting
   from Easy FancyBox related to my problem ?` Not sure what to answer here, libraries
   independent can work in one way, but cannot assess outside the global context.
 * `do you have a CSS setting that allows 5 columns` The plugin provides out of 
   the box the styles for 1, 2, 3 and 4 columns, but another customization is up
   to anyone that uses the plugin.
 * Regards,
    Iulia
 *  Thread Starter [Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laucoste/)
 * (@laucoste)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12296742)
 * Hello Iulia,
 * OK, thank you.
 * This new version with multiple placeholders should resolve my problem !
 * What is the format of the list of multiple placeholders ? Because I see :
 * “Define an image to be used for the posts that do not have a featured image. 
   If you specify a list of images separated by comma, a random one from the list
   will be picked for each article that does not have a featured image.”
 * But should I place in the field “IMAGE PLACEHOLDER” all the full URL separated
   with comma ?
 * [https://mysite.com/photo1.jpg](https://mysite.com/photo1.jpg), [https://mysite.com/photo2.png](https://mysite.com/photo2.png),
   [https://mysite.com/photo3.jpg](https://mysite.com/photo3.jpg), [https://mysite.com/photo4.png](https://mysite.com/photo4.png),
 * => it should work like that?
 * Thank you,
    Regards, Lau
 *  Plugin Author [Iulia Cazan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iulia-cazan/)
 * (@iulia-cazan)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12296815)
 * Yes, just remove the spaces form the list, use only commas.
 *  Thread Starter [Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laucoste/)
 * (@laucoste)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12296840)
 * Thank you !
 *  Plugin Author [Iulia Cazan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iulia-cazan/)
 * (@iulia-cazan)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-load-without-thumbnail/#post-12305735)
 * Hello,
 * I added support for 5 and 6 columns if you still need it. It’s in the new version
   I just released.
 * I am marking this post as resolved, but you can open another ticket if you have
   other questions.
 * Regards,
    Iulia

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