wordpress featured image

The most simple form of the featured images (post thumbnails) looks like this: You need to have this piece of code in your functions.php file: add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); Then in the index.php, or any other template file you want to show the post thumb or featured images, you would add this: <?php the_post_thumbnail( ‘thumbnail’ ); … Read more

Fetch first image URL from post and set as featured image URL

First, paste this function on your functions.php file. function catch_that_image() { global $post, $posts; $first_img = ”; ob_start(); ob_end_clean(); $output = preg_match_all(‘//i’, $post->post_content, $matches); $first_img = $matches [1] [0]; if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image $first_img = “/images/default.jpg”; } return $first_img; } Once done, you can simply call the function within the loop to display the … Read more