twenty eleven: how to make featured image appear as thumbnail in search results

Do you already have a copy of content.php in your child theme?

Hi esmi!
Yes I do.

In content.php, try locating:

<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>
<div class="entry-summary">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
<?php else : ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentytwelve' ) ); ?>

and changing it to:

<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>
<div class="entry-summary">
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
<?php else : ?>
<?php if( is_tag() || is_category() ) the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentytwelve' ) ); ?>

Hurray!

It worked perfectly. Thank you!

Once a rockstar, always a rockstar esmi!

The right sidebar doesn’t show up though – is that normal in search results?

No – it should be there. The changes I have above shouldn’t have affected that in any way. Do you have a copy of search.php in your child theme?

I didn’t, but I just added it!

You shouldn’t need to. Can you check that the last 2 lines in the parent’s copy of search.php are:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Yes, that’s exactly what the parent file’s last two line say…

I’ll remove search.php from my child theme.

Can you post a link to your site again, please?

Sure.

https://www.anniehearts.com

Hi esmi,

Just wondering if you’ve had a chance to look at this?

Thanks!!
Annie
anniehearts.com

Oh – sorry! I lost track of this topic over the weekend. I’ve just checked out your search results page and the sidebar is there but it’s been pushed right to the bottom of the page. This is being caused by a problem with too many </div> tags on the page. My guess is that the actual issue is in yur child theme’s content.php file. Can you paste a copy of it in a pastebin and post the pastebin url here?

No problem, I appreciate the help!

Sure, I’ve put it in paste bin. Here you go.

Thanks!
Annie

What happens if you rename this file content-old.php is your child theme?