Beginner challenges

  • 1. I’ve figured out how to add a thumbnail as a custom field in my posts and now the thumbnail shows up next to the excerpt when i first publish the post. The problem I am having is, once the post is published and i navigate to the post trough the category it is under, the thumbnail is no longer there.

    2. Parent Categories and Child categories. When I create a post I’ve found that I have to assign the post to its parent category and a child category in order for my menu items to show up with the correct Hierarchy structure. It may be easier to understand if you look at my site: https://www.carbondaleenergycenter.com

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  • 1. Sounds like you’d need to edit category.php and/or single.php to include your custom field image.

    2. What happens when you simply assign the child category to a post?

    Thread Starter gjsarahf

    (@gjsarahf)

    Thank you. As a beginner, I’m not quite sure I know what you mean by category.php? where would I edit this?

    Good thought on only assigning the post to the child category, however it didn’t seem to change anything. i still have to click on the category and then the child category and finally the post. seems like a lot of clicks. I’ll play with it some more, thanks again.

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