This particular issue was caused by an environment missing GD. After installing GD on the server, the issue was resolved. Of course you will need to go back and re-submit your thumbnails to have correct cropping, or use a plugin to retroactively recreate your thumbnails.
You want to use the Featured Post Thumbnail: http://wpcanyon.com/tutorials/how-to-use-the-post-thumbnail-feature-in-wordpress-2-9/ http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/ http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail In your functions.php, define an image size with add_image_size(), then display it in the footer like this: the_post_thumbnail(‘footer-image’); Keep all of the loop inside of your main template file and do not split it across multiple files. That’s really messy, and as you’ve figured … Read more
<a rel=”lightbox” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/10191/<?php $image_id = get_post_thumbnail_id(); $image_url = wp_get_attachment_image_src($image_id,”large’, true); echo $image_url[0]; ?>”> <?php the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’); ?> </a> Yeah the above (posted by @null) is correct on getting the url, here it is all put together. Including the rel=lightbox. I call to WP’s large image size here personally for the lightbox image to be linked to. … Read more
I hate it to answer my own question. But after hours of searching and trying I found a solution that works. I offer this solution, because it can’t be interesting for others having the same problem. And for discussion, if there is a better way to get rid of the problem. Perhaps it is not … Read more
You are encountering an improperly configured server. Please consult the WordPress manual on how to setup wordpress on a windows server system. AFAIK – but I’m not a windows server expert – you must configure the upload directory that the user executing the PHP WordPress application is able to access files therein for reading, writing, … Read more
Adding a post thumbnail is pretty easy, open content.php, if you’re using excerpts on your homepage find this <?php the_excerpt(); ?> then add this just above that line <?php the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’, ‘class=alignleft’); ?> If you’re not using excerpts add it above <?php the_content( __( ‘Continue reading <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?> If you’d like a … Read more
Use the post thumbnail for the single blog pages too. You can use the add_image_size() function to create an additional image size that is displayed on the blog posts. add_image_size(‘single-post-image’, 650, 250, true); // name, width, height, crop mode Then in single.php the_post_thumbnail(‘image-size’); Simply place the first function in your functions.php, and the second in … Read more
What if you try adding this to your functions.php function tb(){ wp_enqueue_script(‘thickbox’,null,array(‘jquery’)); wp_enqueue_style(‘thickbox.css’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”.WPINC.’/js/thickbox/thickbox.css’, null, ‘1.0’); } add_action(‘wp_enqueue_scripts’,’tb’); and keeping your bit of jQuery (not sure what your are needing those php variables for): jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery(“img”).parent(“a”).addClass(“thickbox”); });
WordPress and TimThumb both use GD to resize images, so quality is going to be similar. GD’s resize quality is not as good as Photoshop, you’ll notice this especially in fine details. Both WP and TimThumb can be modified to use ImageMagick, WP via a plugin, TimThumb I think requires you edit the code directly, … Read more
According to the wordpress documentation this is how it is supposed to work out of the box. Maybe I misunderstood the question, but by default the excerpt should strip html tags and graphics.