Help with PHP Wordpress Plugin

[lukeseall]

Hello,

This is my first post on the forum and I'm super glad that I found it! hopefully you can help me.

I am trying to edit a wordpress plugin (https://github.com/samsonw/wp-grid-archives
).
It is an archive plugin that displays post title and excerpt sorted by date. I want to get it to display the post thumbnail or featured image.

The code is too long to include on this forum but it can be found on github link above. I believe it is in a file called grid-archives.php. I tried various things like placing

PHP Code:

<?php the_post_thumbnail( $size, $attr ); ?>

But I cant get it to work. I'm pretty useless at PHP unfortunately. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Luke

[mlseim]

I'm going to take a blind shot at this one, so I don't know if it will work or not.


First make a safe copy of "grid-archives.php". Always make a copy of any script you modify in case you have to restore it back.

There are two sections in "grid-archives.php" ... compose_html_classic and compose_html_compact.
I'm not sure which option you are using.

Find this part:

$html .= '<li class="ga_post">'
. '<div class="ga_post_main">'
. '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . '" title="' . $post->post_title . '">' . $this->get_excerpt($post->post_title, $this->options['post_title_max_len']) . '</a>'
. '<p>' . $post->post_content . '</p>'
. '</div>';

and change the part in red ....

$html .= '<li class="ga_post">'
. '<div class="ga_post_main">'
. '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . '" title="' . $post->post_title . '">' . $this->get_excerpt($post->post_title, $this->options['post_title_max_len']) . '</a>'
. '<p>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'thumbnail') . '</p>'
. '</div>';

Change it in either or both 'html_classic' and 'html_compact'

If it doesn't work, just change it back to the original.
If it does work, you can then style the display however you want.

EDIT:
The parameter 'thumbnail' is directly related to the way you uploaded it into the 'media library'.
You have the choices 'thumbnail', 'medium', 'large', etc.
Example: get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'medium')

.

[lukeseall]

Thanks for getting back to me! I'll try it in the morning and see if it works

[lukeseall]

You are a legend! I knew it would be something simple.

Thanks so much.

Luke