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Just learned about the_author_meta(‘description’)

@billerickson

So, I’ve created a new Page and uploaded a few images. Using a specific page template, I’ve got a sidebar pulling the thumbnails (the_post_thumbnail(‘gallery-thumbnail’) and the main content area pulling the full sized images (gallery-full).

From what I understood, when I upload images on the page, I won’t see the thumbnail and full sizes.. only when I use the_post_thumbnail() will I be able to pull those images.

However, the page is not pulling any of the images.. Only when I set an image to be a “Featured Image” will it pull that single image’s thumbnail and full size. How do I approach trying to get all images on a page for a gallery?

OK, quick question.. I’ve added these few lines at the end of my functions.php file in my theme:

// enables the UI in WordPress to allow thumbnails
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

// 50 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall, hard crop mode
// crops from side to side or top to bottom
set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true ); 

add_image_size( 'volcom-thumbnail', 50, 60, true); // this is the thumbnail, hard cropped to 50 x 60
add_image_size( 'volcom-full', 500, 9999); // fullsize, scaled down to a max width of 600px

Am I supposed to see these image size options in the media upload on each page/post.. because I don’t see anything new with the Media Upload after adding those lines into my functions.php

Awesome site, Billerickson! I’ll take a look at your approach and see if I can come up with something.

Would I be looking into the wp-comments-post.php file for this?

Perfect, thanks.

Nevermind.. researched and found out.

Also, is there anyway to just put the code to display posts in the actual search.php file instead of using a function and pulling it from somewhere else?

Actually I see my layout but with no content whatsoever. The header, sidebar, footer, etc. all show up but no content.

As far as the get_header() and get_footer(), I’m using PHP includes so it’s a similar approach and I’m using the ‘include’ function because I have different page templates that pull different headers and footers.

Here you go!

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/jxnYExb1

As you can see, I’ve just kept it simple for testing purposes.. but in the long run, the author page will be a bit more customized.

The links to the author.php file are not pulling the author.php template at all.. When I click on an author, it seems to pull my index.php template.

I would put it online but it’s local at the moment and also can’t be released to public! :X

But yes, I am “using” the author.php file as I have it in my template folder, but it isn’t being pulled when going to an author page.

I do have a author.php file but it is not being used..

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Anyone.. ? Any advice

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