How to generate different images per page?

Try using get_posts if you want a secondary loop in your sidenav. However, you don’t mention where these images are supposed to be pulled from.

Thanks for replying back to me so soon!

I totally agree with you, but that’s exactly what I’d like to know. The images currently reside in the “images” folder, but how do I ask the loop or the function to pull them?

If this is just a bunch of images sitting in a folder then you don’t ask the Loop to do anything. A WP Loop won’t work unless the image details can be pulled from the database. You just need plain ole PHP to pick a random image and display it. The only WP functions that you’ll need are get_stylesheet_directory and get_stylesheet_directory_uri.

The former will give you the path to the images folder assuming that it’s placed within your current theme’s folder. And the latter will give you the image url when it’s time to display it. The rest is just down to how you intend to choose a random image.

Is there a way to pull the images from the folder, but not in “random” order? The sidebar navi is a template tag piece that lives on every page, but the image/thumbnail above the navi should be dynamic. Meaning the “about” page is one specific image, the “meet us” page has a specific image, and so on….

Thanks!

Why not add a featured image to each page and use the_post_thumbnail?

This post comment is extremely hacked up. So pardon the confusion.

I looked into this before. This was the site I was looking at the code: but does all this mean?

$default_attr = array(
			'src'	=> $src,
			'class'	=> "attachment-$size",
			'alt'	=> trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_excerpt )),
			'title'	=> trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_title )),
		);

I would assume I plug the <?php the_post_thumbnail( $size, $attr ); ?> into my <img src=””/> tag? Should I use the ? If so, in the example it asks you to plug in “<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($page->ID, ‘thumbnail’); ?>”

I know what $page->ID means, but how does the code know which page i am specifically in?

Thanks!

Sorry this was the site example that I was looking at: https://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

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how does the code know which page i am specifically in?

The page ID is part of the results that are returned by the query – either the standard WP query or a custom query using get_posts or query_posts. Have you tried just using the_post_thumbnail()?

I actually have the the_post_thumbnail embedded into my code.

My only confusion is trying to understand what this code means:

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
   <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
   </a>
 <?php endif; ?>

Thanks!

I took out the image like you suggested and implemented the only the “the_post_thumbnail().” It’s a blank now, which I guess is a good thing. But how does it know which pic goes with each page?

Thanks!

Translation: If this post (or page) has a post_thumbnail (aka featured image), output a link to the post using the featured image thumbnail as the link “text”.

So the code is using the post thumbnail to create a link to the associated post.

Ah ha! Thank you! So…does this mean I need to change the naming scheme of the images themselves? Like for example, “about page” I would need to name the image file about-feature-image.jpg.

About -> the page
Feature – > the post
Image -> image

This image would reside in the images folder and the ‘src’ => $src would be $images? Assuming “src” is finding only folders.

I know this is very rudimentary, but am I breaking this down correctly?

Thanks!

No – you don’t need to change any image filenames. You just need to have set up a featured image for each page/post. WP stores the association between featured image & post in your database.

Thanks! Let me give this a try.