Attachment posts aren’t exactly the worst thing in the world. They increase the size of your site, and can contain relevant data if you’re using alt, description and title tags. HOWEVER, I do completely see your point, but the good news is that Google won’t crawl those pages if they’re not linked anywhere or included … Read more
Featured image appears in header
A WordPress approach If you have all your Images in the media gallery, you are able to access their post object while embedding/including the images via tinyMCE or plain PHP. WordPress uses wp_prepare_attachment_for_js to get all information about their images for their blade templates. Maybe this will help you to get started. A maybe approach … Read more
Resize images to match CSS
link image file path embedded HTML
To be able to test newly implemented features without risking to break you site, you should set up a development / stating environment. This is a separate wordpress installation on a webspace preferredly independent of your live space but with a similar server setup. Then you always upload new code there first and test it … Read more
I think your problem is easy if you can see the images in the Media Section. Check your links and let us know why the URLs are wrong. You may have problems with hard-coding or using relative links. Why not check yor theme and consider this handbook you need to use correct functions to show … Read more
First I must say I like the web server approach where you create cron jobs. In Linux, you have great options. EXIF tool to remove bad meta information. You just need to set the cron job once a day. Since you need to optimize the existing images. For png images you have optipng For jpeg/jpg … Read more
Run command to optimize images after they get uploaded to WordPress
If I understand your question right, a function that truncates your text after stripping HTML is what you need. What about using wp_trim_words(): <?php while($breakingnews->have_posts()) : $breakingnews->the_post(); ?> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/253344/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_post_thumbnail(‘post-image’); ?></a> <div class=”leadnewsboxtitle”> <h2><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/253344/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <p><?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 60, ‘…’ ); ?></p> </div> <?php endwhile; ?> General … Read more