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Thank you. I actually figured out an alternative using css. ??

It worked! Thank you!

Wow, okay, I wasn’t really thinking. Rather than re-installing, I set about overwriting files–and wouldn’t you know it, I found the culprit? Someone had added that ugly mess to my index.php file in the main directory. I’m not sure why I never thought of that particular file; in retrospect it’s pretty obvious. ??

Update: I just went through and deactivated all my plugins. No change. I’m going to assume that something is up with my wordpress installation.

It just occurred to me that I’m thinking about this incorrectly. I’m pretty sure whatever is wrong must be somewhere in my code that is intended to display my posts in a 3-column table:

<table class="results">

<?php
// Show a selected number of posts per row
$posts_per_row = 3;
$posts_per_page = 12;
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
   'posts_per_page' => $posts_per_page,
   'paged' => $paged,
);
query_posts($args);
if (have_posts()) {
   while (have_posts()) {
      the_post();
      if ((++$post_counter % $posts_per_row) == 1  || $posts_per_row == 1) {
         if ($post_counter > 1) {
            echo "</tr><!-- End of post_row -->";  // End previous row
         }
         echo "<tr>";  // Start a new row
      }
      echo "<td class=result>";  // Start one post
         // Output post data here

echo '<span class=date>Released ';the_time('F j, Y');echo ' at ';the_time();echo '</span>';
         echo '<h1><a href="';the_permalink();echo '">';the_title();echo '</a></h1>';
if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author', false)) {
echo '<blockquote>written by ';$metas = get_post_meta($post->ID,'author',false);
   if(count($metas) >1) { echo 'Multiple Authors'; }
else { echo $metas[0]; }
echo '<br />'; }

if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'summary', true)) { echo '<blockquote>';echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'summary', true); echo '</blockquote>'; }

}

      echo "</td><!-- End of post_class -->";  // End of post
   } ?>

   <!-- End of post_row -->

<?php } else {
   // Code for no posts found
echo "<tr><td colspan=3><p>No posts found.</p></td></tr>";
}
?>
</table>

Any idea where the problem is?

Try:

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I found a solution! There’s probably a much cleaner way of doing this, but after searching the forums and doing some more experimentation, I made this work for me.

Insert the following into functions.php:

function postimage() {
	if ( $images = get_children(array(
		'post_parent' => get_the_ID(),
		'post_type' => 'attachment',
		'numberposts' => 1,
		'post_mime_type' => 'image',)))
	{
		foreach( $images as $image ) {
			$attachmenturl=wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID);

			echo ''.$attachmenturl.'';
		}
	} else {
		$bloginfo = bloginfo('template_directory');
		echo $bloginfo."/images/add-feat.png";
	}
}

Replace the index.php code I indicated in my first post with the following:

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I’m certain that my way makes parts of the code redundant, but the slideshow now draws on attached images rather than a custom field, so yay?

Also inserting the following code in single.php (or wherever appropriate) will call up the raw image url:
<?php postimage(); ?>

I haven’t figured out how to do this, but I figured out an acceptable alternative.

Thank you, this worked perfectly. And thanks for the links too!

That sounds promising. I’ll give it a shot!

P.S. I found a plugin that will display the text of an include, but won’t run the actual PHP code within the include. Huh.

I’m not really familiar with that. Would that replace the content entirely? That’s not really what I’m trying to do. At this point, I’m considering placing ALL content in custom fields and ignoring the content box entirely. If I can make shortcodes work in custom fields, that might be the easiest all the way around.

I finally found it! The document that needs to be edited is downloadable_file.class.

Awesome! I knew there must be an easy way to do this. <3

Thank you. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks straightforward enough.