[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Featured image problems

update: setting the featured image through the NextGen gallery doesn’t seem to register a url for the image as the src=”” is blank. Here is how the theme page template calls the featured image:

// Grab the URL for the thumbnail (featured image)
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'full' );

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

There should be a working solution here:
https://code.google.com/p/nextgen-gallery/issues/detail?id=348

I think Alex is working on putting it into the next update, but if you can’t wait you can try to replace the file your self.

/Kristian

Kristian,

Thanks for the reply! I updated the lib/post-thumbnail.php with your code but still no luck. The src for the image is still blank. Any other ideas? I’m still waiting for a reply from the theme developer.

Update: The Theme developer says his theme:

“will look for the generic post-thumbnail/featured image and use that”

I misread your post. It seems that he uses the id to get the post thumbnail and then gets a build in function to get the image source.

The call to wp_get_attachment_image_src does not work on nextgen galleries.

Depending on how he uses the $image variable later, it can be changed in the theme to support nextgen images as well.

Looks like he gets the image url with the following:

<img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />

Any idea on how to add NGG to this?

Thanks Again!

The short and rude answer would be yes I have ??

The bit longer answer is: obtain the same with the following code replacing your two lines:

<?php if (function_exists("has_post_thumbnail") && has_post_thumbnail() ) {
the_post_thumbnail('full',array('alt'=>the_title_attribute('echo=0'))); }
?>

which also checks if there is a thumbnail image before inserting it. The parameter ‘full’ means that it will take the original size image which is what the code you have posted does. If you have a specified post thumbnail size you want to use, you can replace it with ‘post-thumbnail’.

Thanks edlund, your solution worked for me! I was having similar issue with NGG and featured image, but your code really helped!

-Abhi

I am having the same issue with my Custom Community Theme slideshow; the featured image does not show if I take it from NGG, only if I upload the image into the default WP and set the featured image from there. For this reason, many of my images have to be uploaded into both libraries.

I don’t know much about coding, but I do know how to edit files if I’m given what to edit, any suggestions?