Convert post content to featured image

  • Resolved tulioatelio

    (@tulioatelio)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    For more than a year i used blogger and now i decided it’s way about time to go wordpress!
    I have a medium overall programing knowledge but i am facing a big problem and i need help.
    In blogger i always inserted thumbnails in the post’s content, like:
    <p class="thumb"><img src="thumb.jpg"/></p> [... post content]
    I have 624 posts, they are all this way.
    First i thought about querying the posts, isolate the thumb url somehow and then update the database.
    But i see no special place in the database diagram for post thumbnails.
    know i am lost… please help ??

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  • The images themselves are stored in wp-contents/uploads by default, if you upload the posts with the WordPress uploader.

    Images also have an entry in the *_posts table (post_type=”attachment”) with more metadata stored in *_postmeta.

    There is no special place for thumbnails. If you use the Media uploader and if it can (needs PHP’s GD libray), WordPress will create thumbnails that look like ‘thumb-150×150.jpg’, but that size can be changed, that don’t (as far as I have noticed) get individual references in the tables. WordPress depends upon that naming pattern to find them.

    However, I don’t think you need to deal with any of that since you are dealing with URLs embedded in the post content. You should be able to search and replace the post_content column of the *_posts table.

    Thread Starter tulioatelio

    (@tulioatelio)

    thanks, i just created a function to extract the thumbnail case the post does not have featured image

    How did you do that?

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