WordPress PHP custom function is causing 500 Internal Server Error Connection Timeout

This function is completely unnecessary, and can be replaced with the official WP function called media_sideload_image: media_sideload_image( string $file, int $post_id, string $desc = null, string $return = ‘html’ ) for example: $new_image_id = media_sideload_image( “https://example.com/image.png”, $post_id, “Toms great picture”, ‘ID’ ); https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/media_sideload_image/ Don’t forget to check the result, if this fails it will return … Read more

Image title replace with current date

You can achieve this by using following code: /* Automatically set the image Title, Alt-Text, Caption & Description upon upload ————————————————————————————–*/ add_action( ‘add_attachment’, ‘my_set_image_meta_upon_image_upload’ ); function my_set_image_meta_upon_image_upload( $post_ID ) { // Check if uploaded file is an image, else do nothing if ( wp_attachment_is_image( $post_ID ) ) { $custom_title = date(“Y-m-d”); //settings current date as … Read more

Adding Post Thumbnail to Metro Pro Theme

This post on the StudioPress forums mentions going to the Theme Settings in Genesis. Inside the Content Archives, click the checkbox that says “Display the featured image?”. On doing so, the featured image pops up.

Loading and Referencing Images

Could be the piece you’re missing here is that after you upload photos if you want to get to that item again to do anything with it, including get its URL, the thing you need to keep is not the filename but the ID that you get back. You can then call e.g. wp_get_attachment_image_src directly … Read more