aaronbennett2097

Hi Wylie.

Its perfect for what I need and its very flexible in my responsive theme – and lightweight, really good work!!

How soon do you think we could see an update with this feature? I’d be more than willing to donate in appreciation, or test if you need a guinea pig.

thanks
Aaron

No Jose, thank you!

Keep up the great work mate ??

Jose. You the MAN!!

Am gonna go buy (donate) you a few beers.

THANK YOU!!!!

Also, is there a way to swap the order of the contents?

Id like the excerpt before the meta data.

thanks
Aaron

Hi Jose.

Just so I understand you and do it correctly, you want me to make the changes in the network-latest-posts.php?

thank you thank you thank you!!

Have looked through my database (bit out of my knowledge / depth) and although I found the _postmeta, I couldnt see anything that refers to hero_shot.

I must admit, I don’t really know what I’m doing with the database!

Will keep researching and testing.
Thanks!!
Aaron

Hi Jose.

It’s def not a paid plugin (https://advancedcustomfields.com) or at least I’ve never paid for it.

From what I have just read, Advanced Custom Fields uses it’s own table in the database, so that may be why its not picking up in the _postmeta.

https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/discussion/72/-very-important-information-about-the-new-v1-1-acf-update/p1

I’m going to dig into my database and see where the hero_shot table is stored.

Thanks again for all your time.
Aaron

Hi Jose.

I already made sure I had image URL selected, but no joy.

Interestingly, when I look at the returning code…

<img src=”93″ width=”202″ height=”202 /><h3 class=” nlposts-block-title’=””>

…if I click on the “93” it gives me the full url of where this image is supposed to be.

This is where it gets confusing…

The full URL is to my main blog (call it BLOGA) whereas the image is actually saved in a post in BLOGB.

Does that make sense? I think it’s looking in the wrong blog for the image.

Thanks
Aaron

Hi Jose.

So you suspect Advanced Custom Fields is saving the data other than the _postmeta table?

Shall I try using the built in custom fields and see if that works?

I really appreciate all your help on this – do let me know if theres anything I can try to narrow down the problem.
Aaron

Hi Jose.

I’ve checked the code and here is what it’s returning.

<img src=”93″ width=”202″ height=”202 /><h3 class=” nlposts-block-title’=””>

The img src=”93″ is where I suspect it’s failing.

I’ve also tried ‘hacking’ your file to hard code the hero_shot field, but that didn’t work either.

To eliminate other errors I created a new custom field, uploaded a new image and changed the widget to point to the new custom field, but still no gravy.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
Aaron

Hi Jose.

Have checked and the custom field is set to return the value as a url, but still no joy.

To check, I did add a featured image to the post and it still seems to be using that, even though I set the widget to use a custom field.

Am gonna keep trying, am sure its something on my setup – which is sadly being developed locally so can’t share the url.

Any further thoughts would be really appreciated.
Aaron

Hi Jose.

Have updated the plugin and set the Thumbnail Custom Field to the name I have (hero_shot).

At the moment all I’m getting is the question mark graphic because the image cannot be found, but going to persevere and see if I can figure it out.

I set my custom field using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin by the way, incase that helps.

The plugin is being used on my homepage of a multisite install, which is pulling the posts from a sub blog (if thats the right terminology).

The excerpts are there, so its finding the posts, just not the image (yet).

Thanks again!
Aaron

Hi Jose.

You are AMAZING for acting on this so quickly. Seriously! Thank you!!

Am going to try it out and if I have any problems I’ll get straight back to you.

Ten thumbs up!! ??