How to do a ‘real’ “has image” check

  • Resolved Ve Mer

    (@vmercader)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    This question is probably for advanced WordPress developers.

    I have a dilemma where image thumbnails are being detected as “true” by has_post_thumbnail() even though the image is actually non-existent in the uploads/ folder.

    This happens when I use the WordPress importer tool, and the exported process fails to do the: “download post attachments(?)” [paraphrasing].

    So say, if you have this generic structure for displaying the_post_thumbnail():

    if (has_post_thumbnail()) {//this functions checks the database *instead* of the actual presence of the image in the uploads/ folder ?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target="_top" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" rel="bookmark" role="banner">
        <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
      </a>
    <?php } else { //it's supposed to show a "default" image, but instead, it *blanks* ?>
      <img src="<?= THE_BLOG_THEME_DIR; ?>/img/fig-<?= rand(1,3); ?>-def.jpg" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
    <?php } ?>

    Because on the imported data of the post says that the post “has a thumbnail” – the has_post_thumbnail() functions triggers as true – but the image is *not* or is in a wrong directory on the new WordPress installation – the image doesn’t show up.

    I’m okay with the image not showing up, but I’d like my conditional to show up with a generic image instead of it triggering a “true” boolean output when it’s supposed to be false.

    Somewhere out there, this problem has been worked around – but I’ve been searching and no solutions yet.

    There are probably plugins there that fix database-to-image location relationships, but I haven’t seen them yet (recommend please).

    Anyone?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Ve Mer. Reason: might mislead people if I say, "has_image()" thinking I don't know that there's no such function - I'm just making a reference
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  • I had a similar problem once.

    I worked it out by using the function get_the_post_thumbnail instead of the_post_thumbnail, apparently the the_post_thumbnail brings a place holder even when there is no image actually.

    I hope this can be useful somehow, however may the other people of the community share other ideas to help you out.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    In my experience, when images are attached to the page but in some way are invalid I tackle this with JS to provide a fallback.

    Thread Starter Ve Mer

    (@vmercader)

    This works:

    $checkThumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail_url();
  if (has_post_thumbnail() && $checkThumbnail) {
    the_post_thumbnail();
  } else {
    //...show static image
  }

    Thanks Mateus

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