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you can create custom featured image sizes in your theme’s functions file that can then be called in your theme’s template files. Read more add-custom-featured-image-sizes

It is possible, you will need to create another loop for that special category using WP_Query class. An example of a loop returning the “cats” category would be: // WP_Query arguments $args = array ( ‘category_name’ => ‘cats’, ); // The Query $query = new WP_Query( $args ); // The Loop if ( $query->have_posts() ) … Read more

You could add time params to your WP_Query. Posts that have the same tag and were published during the current week: <?php $recent = new WP_Query(‘post_type=stories&story_tag=featured&posts_per_page=4&year=”.date(“Y’).’&w=’.date(‘W’); ?> Source: the codex and me since i recently did this.

As you’re trying to get the ID of an attachment, functions like get_post_thumbnail_id() won’t work on an attachment post because itself is the attachment. You should be able to get the ID simply with $post_id = $attachment->ID;

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if($count == 1 && !is_paged() ) : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_paged

You can use get_the_post_thumbnail() and pass the ID of the parent instead: if ( $post->post_parent ) $post_id = $post->post_parent; else $post_id = $post->ID; if ( $thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail( $post_id, ‘post-thumbnail’ ) ) { echo $thumbnail; }

Recommending a plugin is not how it works in this community, but there is a plugin which is lightweight and does exactly what you need. Check the plugin in WP Remote Thumbnail

Firstly I have edited your code to remove the thumbnail between the ul and the li as you cannot place anything there and placed it in a p tag for demonstration purposes only you can change it to whatever you like. I have also added a next and previous button for you after the ul … Read more