From my past research I concluded that there is no sane way to affect the featured images box with actions and filters. My solution was to use jQuery inserted on the admin_head hook, to change things after they are loaded. What I wanted was to add some textual detail outlining how the featured image would … Read more
I don’t have a code example to test atm but to download images via an URL, in your case after $image = wp_remote_get( $fr_news_thumbnail_url ); you can use the function: media_sideload_image($file, $post_id, $desc); http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/media_sideload_image
In addition to creating additional dimension, WordPress does keep your original image. Your original image is in this link http://whatweblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/hue.gif So, instead of stopping WordPress from creating additional dimension, you should retrieve the full image when displaying the featured image. You can get the full image with this – the_post_thumbnail(‘full’); In your case, change <?php … Read more
Use get_the_post_thumbnail( $id, $size ) if you’re going to echo the result. And make sure you have post thumbs enabled. add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
I believe you are looking for add_image_size. You need to put this into your functions.php to register new image sizes. WP will automatically crop/resize the uploaded images to fit the sizes you have registered with add_image_size NOTE Images that already have been uploaded won’t be affected by adding add_image_size only new uploads will. To overcome … Read more
Have you double checked if the featured-image section is enabled under the Screen Options tab?
I finally figured this out. It ended up being something really stupid. I have short tags enabled on my server so I can use <? instead of <?php in theme files. I was also using a short tag to open my functions.php file. Apparently, when PHP scripts run from the command line, they require the … Read more
To get the desired image while sharing or posting post to facebook you have to add og:image tag inside your <head> tag. And for twitter you have > to use twitter card //Adding the Open Graph in the Language Attributes function add_opengraph_doctype($output) { return $output . ‘ xmlns:og=”http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/” xmlns:fb=”http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml”‘; } add_filter(‘language_attributes’, ‘add_opengraph_doctype’); //add Open Graph … Read more
If you want to remove the height value from your img URL, you can use this function: add_filter( ‘post_thumbnail_html’, ‘remove_thumbnail_height’, 10, 5 ); function remove_thumbnail_height( $html, $post_id, $post_thumbnail_id, $size, $attr ) { $html = preg_replace( ‘/height=\”\d*\”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”, “”, $html ); return $html; } This will replace the height with an empty value. Note that you can’t … Read more
No, there’s not a way to do this by using the_post_thumbnail(), neither it’s recommended. What you are looking for is cropping the images on the fly. This will cost heavy server resources, especially when you have a lot of images to work with. But in theory, to do so, you can make a script that … Read more