Comments on: HOWTO: Thumbnails for Categories

By: maxtron

maxtron — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:05:25 +0000

please man I need some help I just want you to show me what do I have to put and where to have my posts the same as yours

By: maxtron

maxtron — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:03:32 +0000

please man I can't make it work as yours, I tried and tried an could'nt do anything, I'm a completely noob and didn't understand where I had to put things, I didn't realise if I had to put it in the single.php or the index.php or ...?? well, I put all your code in the loop but all was terrible and the function you put for the images, I couldn't realise where they are located, please could you help me or send a tutorial more especific? here is my index.php: written by Not Found Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.

By: WP Tricks

WP Tricks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:06:31 +0000

Wonderful tutorial… I will tried this method

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:24:02 +0000

oh! Sorry.

I’ve gone one step further.

Today I created this function to automatically add a picture within the loop of the index.

function iconcat()
{
$category = get_the_category();
$nombrecat = $category[0]->cat_name;
//quitamos la tilde
$nombretcat = trim(strtolower(sintilde($nombrecat)));
//quitamos los espacios
$nombretcat = str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $nombretcat);
//imprimimos la imagen
echo ”;

}

thanks. your article has inspired me.

the example you can see on my website (section tuts)

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:19:20 +0000

Peter,

Sorry, this is an English blog, so we can’t respond in Spanish. If you can leave a comment in English, we’ll try our best to respond to you regarding your question.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:18:18 +0000

Thank.
he ido un paso mas adelante.

Hoy he creado esta función para agregar una imagen automaticamente dentro del loop del index.

function iconcat()
{ // extraemos el nombre de la categoria
$category = get_the_category();
$nombrecat = $category[0]->cat_name;
//quitamos la tilde
$nombretcat = trim(strtolower(sintilde($nombrecat)));
//quitamos los espacios
$nombretcat = str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $nombretcat);
//imprimimos la imagen
echo ”;

}

gracias. su articulo me ha servido de inspiración. el ejemplo lo pueden ver en mi web (seccion tutos)

By: Dre Armeda

Dre Armeda — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:31:40 +0000

Hi Peter, any of the category pages listed in our main navigation will show you a list of posts.

When you see a thumbnail that has the WPV logo and the category name, that is a default thumbnail called using this method.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:43:11 +0000

add example please.

thank!

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:13 +0000

Right, it will let you do it on the fly, but again, it won’t always give you exactly what you want (with TimThumb).

But you are also correct, the new features with 2.9 will indeed allow you to edit on the fly.

When I get a chance, I’ll write another tutorial that let’s you edit on the fly and use those as the thumbnail instead.

Thanks!

By: stakabo

stakabo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:20:21 +0000

Timthumb would allow to resize images on the fly and not have to open photoshop every time.

but now with WP 2.9, part of this code is obsolete. and beside, having to copy/paste image URL in a custom field is a pain. the new thumb function of WP is much better…

[code]

if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
the_post_thumbnail();
} else {
$newthumb = "news.png";
$category = get_the_category();
$catid = $category[0]->category_nicename;
$okCats = array( 'news', 'interviews', 'resources', 'reviews' ); //Maybe even filter this so it can be extended
if ( in_array($catid, $okCats) ) {
$newthumb = strtolower($catid) . '.png';
}
}
?>

[/code]