[Plugin: Smart Archives Reloaded] Add thumbnail image to fancy.html

I’m no expert, but I believe I may have succeeded in doing just that last night.

In the generator.php file, I added this:

protected function substitute_thumbnail( $post ) {
		return the_post_thumbnail( array(65,65) );
	}

right after the end of the

function substitute_category( $post )

function.

THEN, in the core.php file, I added “%thumbnail%” to the list of shortcodes, as such:

static function get_available_tags() {
		return array(
			'%post_link%',
			'%date%',
			'%excerpt%',
			'%author_link%', '%author%',
			'%comment_count%',
			'%category_link%', '%category%', '%thumbnail%',
		);
	}

Be sure to back up and save. I did it wrong the first time and had to manually delete the plugin and reinstall it before I could get back into wordpress. But the second time, it worked like a charm.

But I’ve NEVER done anything like this before. I don’t know code. I simply guessed (based on patterns I saw in the code), and was flabbergasted and did a little dance when it worked. YAY!

To clarify, this should allow you to use the %thumbnail% shortcode.

Thanks for the information.

Did you have to make any changes to:

function generate_fancy() {

within the file generator.php ?

For example, in function generate_fancy() Ive added this:
‘archive-image’ => “<img src='”.$thumbnail.”‘ border=’0’>”,

and fancy.html, made this change:
<ul class=”archive-list”>
<h2>{{{archive-image}}} {{{post-list}}}</h2>

However, no image is showing up, so I guess the variable $thumbnail is not applicable in this scenario as when I view the HTML page, I can see <img src=” border=’0′>