Two tweaks for the Unstandard theme:<\/p>\n
How to specify a default image for lead_image and secondary_image and
\nHow to make the home page show posts from only one category.<\/p>\n
I know, this is another off-topic post but I’ve had so many people write in to me wanting to know about the tweaks I’ve been doing for this theme that I just thought I’d put it out there.
\n[grin] Maybe it’s how I’m going to do some more ‘attraction’ of readers???<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to set up the theme for a while so that if I didn’t have the time (or inspiration) to create a custom image for lead_image and secondary_image, the page would revert to using a default one. Plus, of course, it would mean I could occasionally post remotely from places where I didn’t have access to ftp and image software. Turns out it’s not actually that hard.<\/p>\n
The line of code that looks for the image to use on your home page is, funnily enough, home.php. (There’s a similar entry under index.php but it only looks for secondary images, so I suspect that’s called when you’ve got some kind of page navigation plugin that lets you go back to previous entries. I put the fix in there too just to be certain.)<\/p>\n
You’re looking for the code:<\/p>\n
<?php $top_query = new WP_Query(‘showposts=1’); ?>
\n<?php while($top_query->have_posts()) : $top_query->the_post(); $first_post = $post->ID; ?>
\n<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
\n<div class=”main-post-bg”>
\n<p class=”post-comments”><?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?><\/p>
\n<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘lead_image’, true); ?>
\n<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><img width=”593″ src=”<?php echo $image; ?>” alt=”” \/><\/a>
\n<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” class=”post”>
\n<div class=”main-post-bg”><a title=”<?php the_title(); ?>” href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>”><img src=”<?php echo $image; ?>” alt=”” width=”593″ \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe line in there that calls the image is <?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘lead_image’, true); ?>.\u00a0 You can add in a string just after the last semicolon that tells it what to look for if there is no ‘lead_image’ specified by changing it to:<\/p>\n
<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘lead_image’, true); $image = $image ? $image : ‘..\/images\/default_img.jpg’; ?><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, you’d change the path to whatever points to your default picture, and make sure it’s sized properly (593 x 225px).<\/p>\n
Then you need to do something similar to point to your default ‘secondary_image’.\u00a0 It looks just like the above line, but about 15 lines down and says ‘secondary_image’ instead of ‘lead_image’.\u00a0 That one will need to be sized 293×150, if you’re still using the unstandard default sizing.\u00a0 To make it easy, here’s a cut and paste again:<\/p>\n
<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘secondary_image’, true); $image = $image ? $image : ‘..\/images\/default_img2.jpg’; ?><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And finally, for those that have asked me how I made my home page show only selected posts, I created a category called ‘Featured’ and only those will show up on the front page.\u00a0 It was my workaround for posts where I didn’t have images – I just wouldn’t assign them to that category and the pictures wouldn’t be needed.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 The line:<\/p>\n
<?php $top_query = new WP_Query(‘showposts=1’); ?>
\n…and further down…
\n<?php query_posts(‘showposts=15’); ?><\/p><\/blockquote>\ngot changed to:<\/p>\n
<?php $top_query = new WP_Query(‘showposts=1&category_name=Featured’); ?>
\n…and…
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