If/Else Statement for Featured Images

Hi there, long story short, my site had some kind of DB crash a few months back and I lost upwards of 400 posts. Good news I had a backup and repaired the issue. Bad news, all featured images are gone for those posts.

So what I’ve been trying to figure out is a way to setup an if/else statement that IF there is a featured image on a post it will display the image, ELSE it will display the static logo. I’ve tried a few different things, but the best I’ve ended up with is only posts without featured images being shown.

Anyone have any thoughts on how I could accomplish this? Here is my current code:

<ul>
<?php
$args = array( 'cat=-5', 'numberposts' => 5, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
$rand_posts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : ?>
<li>
<p class="title"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> </a></p>
<p class="image"><a title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php  the_post_thumbnail( 'recent' );  ?></a></p>
<p class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?></p>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

I’m pretty out of practice coding, so I’m really probably overlooking something really simple here.

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