How to get thumbnailpictures in Blogger-blogrolls? (yes it is possible)

  • Anne

    (@moseplassen)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi!
    Blogspot/Blogger has for several years had the option to show small thumbnailpictures from the newest blogpost in blogrols. This has only worked with Blogger blogs, not with blogs run on wordpress.

    But, now I see that someone clever has figured out how to make it work for wordpress to. There are at least two theemes on WordPress.com that will show these thumbnailpictures. They are: twenty forteen theeme, and twenty ten theem. You have to use “featured images” to get the thumbnail. (i have no idea if this workes on the themes when they are selfhosed).

    I (and a lot of other people) really would like this function, so I hope that someone of you understand what I need to doo to get my thumbnailpictures to show! The theeme I use for my blog uses featured images already, so there must be something else I need to do/add.

    Probably related: My featured images dont show up in Feedburner-emails (RSS subscription). Possibly fixing one will fix the other?

    If you would like to see how the Blogger-lists (with blogspot and wordpressblogs) look, you can se that here. In the first collum you will find three extra large pictures, they all are WordPress-blogs.

    This is the adress for my wordpressblog:

    All help will be greatly appreciated, please excuse my horrid english spelling!

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Yes, self-hosted WP has had Post Thumbnails or Featured Images (different names for the same thing) since version 2.9! For more information on theme support see Post Thumbnails. Basically, on functions.php just do add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); and on the template where the image is to be displayed do if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) the_post_thumbnail();

    Thread Starter Anne

    (@moseplassen)

    Thank you for your answer bcworkz!

    Just to make sure you understood my question as Im note sure i made myself clear. Im not looking for a way to show thumbnails (or featured images) in my bloggpost, My theeme already has that and I have been using it for a year. Im looking for a way to have the featured-images show up in bloggers-bloggroll. If you beleve your fix will fix this then Ill get someone to help me adding it to the code and test it out.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Ah, thanks for the clarification, I did misunderstand, apologies. While I am essentially an expert in the core WordPress package, I know nothing of other platforms or even plugins and major extensions to WordPress, thus I cannot fully answer your question.

    I will say it is possible to have WordPress provide the information on request, or even have another app connect to the WordPress DB and extract the information directly. Whether your app has the ability to make such queries or not, I’ve no idea, sorry.

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