judgedredd

The only reason I installed this version of WP is because of the plugin. And the fact that you have stated that ‘…is too old for us to support here.’ makes a mockery of community based support.

This community is not a corporation like Microsoft and there are still people using the older version of WP because of the bloatware that WP has become and the fact that Gutenburg is now a part of the package whereas before people had a choice as to whether to install and use it or not.

My purpose was to install WP, use the plugin to import an HTML site and then export or migrate it over to Classic Press. Since no help will be forthcoming here I will go elsewhere.

I have looked at the code in the Recent Posts with Image plugin and found this section of code:

/**
	 * Returns the thumbnail of first post's image or empty string on failure
	 *
	 * @access   private
	 * @since     2.0
	 *
	 * @return    bool    success on finding an image
	 */
	private function the_first_post_image ( $attr ) {
		// look for first image
		$thumb_id = $this->get_first_content_image_id();
		// if there is first image then show first image
		if ( $thumb_id ) :
			return wp_get_attachment_image( $thumb_id, $this->customs[ 'thumb_dimensions' ], $attr );
		else :
			return '';
		endif; // thumb_id
	}

I wondering if I can somehow use the above code to create the thumbnail where I want it by plugging it into the functions.php file for the Twentyseventeen theme and calling it somehow in the page where I need it.

Note: When I do set a featured image it does appear on the front page in the Recent Posts area against the post where the Featured Image was enabled, but it was HUGE (the original size of the image). So Gerry’s code does work when the Featured Image is set, but since I have not set any featured images the thumbnail doesn’t appear.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by judgedredd.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by judgedredd.

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for the time and effort you put into your reply. Much appreciated. I adjusted my code (actually swapped out what was there for your code because I had changed it to something else) but the thumbnails still do not appear. I had to adjust the code as well as there was a diamond with a question mark being thrown up to the left of each post. The adjustment was:

  echo '<li>', '&raquo;', $my_img, '<a href="', get_permalink($post['ID']), '">', $post['post_title'], '</a></li>';
    }

I did look at the page you provided the link to but it was not easy to understand how to implement the function I require, which you have shown nicely. Is there something that is lacking somewhere in any of the files or the script? The theme I am using is Twentyseventeen. The theme works brilliantly when one clicks on the one of the posts in the Recent Posts area or on the ‘My Blog’ menu link at the top. Its just this one little thing on the front page I am trying to get working (thumbnail beside the post title).

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by judgedredd. Reason: spelling error
• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by judgedredd.

Dear Steven and Samuel,

Thank you very much for the thorough response. I had no idea that ww.wp.xz.cn and WordPress.com were two separate and individual entities. Thanks for clarifying that and for confirming that there is no censorship on a private site when using WP.

These answers have initiated a complete change in my thinking about WordPress (when downloaded from ww.wp.xz.cn).