Hi Joey, an interesting point. Where in the backend can you set the featured image for an attachment page?
Yes indeed 🙂
That same page I gave you the link but on the backend : media – modify.
I found out that the media attachment page does not automatically carry this media featured image for all media listed. It seems overridden (and not “there” not displayed as a feature) when the featured image is set at the actual post page level.
Do you want access to see it ?
Yes, on the modify page is a link to the attachment page, but where can you SET (and exchange and delete) the featured image for this page?
I think, the media attachment page is not a further post type in WP. It is build based on the file attachment.php in your theme directory. If there is no such file WP tries to use the single.php (and if there is no single.php WP uses the index.php to display a page).
If you are firm with PHP code please take a look into the code of the files and look for the line the_post_thumbnail(). Maybe you will an explanation for the behaviour of your theme.
(Ooops sorry I just realized I answered right back by email not here sorry – here follows the answer 🙂
I am not a coder at all.
Yet this featured image for the media attachement page has been created by a plugin : https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/
This is not a theme feature nor a usage of the theme I made.
All my uploaded videos (self hosted) are having thumbnails created and everytime this happens by me or any author then the video thumbnail is set as featured image so I can display that image for the video.
So I assume that feature existing itis worth being used as a ressource for your plugin. Because in the above case that is the feature image for the post where the video is published, displayed and played.
Hi Joey, thank you for your ideas. I will take a close look into this plugin and think about solutions to use such possibilities in my plugin. I will inform you here if I will have made decisions.
No, this video plugin does not offer some points where QFI can jump in to help managing featured images. Neither does it create a custom post type, nor a custom taxonomy or any other resource. It takes the WordPress standard post type to set the featured image for the single post where the video is in.
There are some other plugins creating thumbnails of embedded videos, even from external servers like Youtube or vimeo, and set the thumbnail as featured image of the video containing post. This is an option I would think about for future for my plugin.
Would this come close to your ideas?
Dear thanks a lot.
The fact established last night is that : When posting on frontend (not usual backend) like does the theme p2 or my site (with plugin called status which you do not see when not logged in but appears on the frontend homepage for user to post) then the thumbnail created by the uploaded video is linking to the attachement page NOT the post page. That is what happens and this is only due to frontend posting. A fact of interest to you as there is a kind of bug with front end posting of media due to the nature of wp core not build for front end posting.
This said I did not find another plugin enabling me to created a feature image for an uploaded video (self hosted).
The above problem does not occur with great 3rd party hosted video thumbnail generator which I have installed and is working nice (video thumbnail.)
So I would appreciate if your plugin could fetch the feature image when that one is (for some weird reason like mine) assigned to the media file (attachement page…)
Now if this is too much of an odd case versus the coding work required then let me know ?
Thanks for your help and understanding.
Cif
Would you please give me access to it as you offered to me at the beginning?
sure check your email address (the one of the site contact page)
Thank you for the login. As far as I could look into the backend it seems for me that the video plugin creates an image out of a video, stores it in the media library, assigned it to the video and calls it “Featured Image”.
So the meaning is: this is the image which belongs to that video, giving an impression of somewhere in the video.
To name it “Featured Image” leads to a bit of confusion. Of course the image can use as a featured image. But to posts, pages and other thumbnail-supporting custom post types only and NOT to attachment pages.
Because there is NO post type “Attachment Page” in WordPress at all. Don’t ask me why the WP programmers did not introduce such a post type.
And the video plugin has its own way to link a video file with a video thumbnail. Sorry, I will not code plugin-depending solutions.
QFI makes it possible to set a generated video thumbnail, which is stored in the media library, as featured image to bulk of posts, pages and other thumbnail-supporting custom post types, both to existing ones and to future ones.
Totally clear
Danke viele mal !
