Frank P. Walentynowicz

Hi Ross,

I’m using NextCellent Gallery 1.9.15 but I’ve decided to give NextGEN Download Gallery a try anyway. The extended shortcode works perfectly. Thanks for your suggestion.

Frank

This part of the plugin does not depend in any way on rewrites. You have javascript conflict with some other plugin or theme. Try to upgrade to 1.5.9 and see if that helps. Let me know if it works now.

Added to future development plans

Create a new post and publish it. FPW Category Thumbnails will assign its predefined image. Go to edit the post and set your own image then exit without updating. Every conecutive edit with update will preserve your image as long as Do not overwrite if post / page has thumbnail assigned already is checked.

In template theloop.php find the following block:

if(has_post_thumbnail()) {
?><?php if (!is_single()) { ?>” title=”<?php printf( $SMTheme->_( ‘permalink’ ), the_title_attribute( ‘echo=0’ ) ); ?>”><?php the_post_thumbnail(
array($SMTheme->get( ‘layout’, ‘imgwidth’ ), $SMTheme->get( ‘layout’, ‘imgheight’ )),
array(“class” => $SMTheme->get( ‘layout’,’imgpos’ ) . ” featured_image”)
); ?><?php } else { ?>
<?php //the_post_thumbnail(
//array(278, 173),
//array(“class” => $SMTheme->get( ‘layout’,’imgpos’ ) . ” featured_image”)
//); ?>
<?php }
}

I’ve already commented out the second occurence of the_post_thumbnail call ( look for // ). Place // where I did it. If you’ve commented out the first occurence, reverse it as it is for excerpts. That’s all.

Version 1.5.9 of FPW Category Thumbnails ( which will be released when WP 3.6 ready ) introduces category thumbnails acting as links to their respective categories. For this to work you’ll have to use FPW Post Thumbnails ( bundled with FPW Category Thumbnails ) instead of theme controlled thumbnail display. When you hover the mouse pointer over the category image the tooltip will show View all post in category-name category.

It is my understanding that displaying thumbnails is controlled by your theme only. In that case you have to look for two calls following the_post_thumbnail(). These are: the_content() and the_excerpt(). You comment out the_post_thumbnail for the_content() and leave it for the_excerpt(). You have to check other themplates as well. Let me know which theme you use. It will be easier for me to help you.

Based on an assumption that you use Auto Post Thumbnail by Aditya Mooley and Tarique Sani the proper order of actions will be:
1. in FPW Category Thumbnails uncheck the box Do not overwrite if post / page has thumbnail assigned already, click on Update button, and then click on Apply Mapping button. This will add category thumbnails to all posts in categories which have thumbnail image assigned.
2. in FPW Category Thumbnails check the box Do not overwrite if post / page has thumbnail assigned already, click on Update button, and then go to Auto Post Thumbnail and click on Generate Thumbnails button. This will add thumbnails to all posts which still do not have a thumbnail but have an image within its content. Please let me know if that solved the problem.

You have to enable it ( checkbox ) for your post type.

WordPress help does not work without javascript. Go to standard admin screens and see if you can access help. What Post/Page editing tools? Edit works with and without javascript. I guess you still don’t understand this concept.

Enable thumbnails via checkboxes ( content and/or excerpt ).

Check your theme first. If it displays thumbnails by itself ( the_post_thumbnail(); ) comment out these calls and use FPW Post Thumbnails plugin to control thumbnails display. You can enable thumbnails for excerpts and disable them in a content.

1. in FPW Category Thumbnails check option Do not overwrite if post / page has thumbnail assigned already and update options.
2. set Featured Image in posts/pages which are not supposed to have category images.
3. Apply Mapping.

All posts/pages which don’t have Featured Image set will get category images.

First thing would be to eliminate all javascript conflicts with your plugins and/or your theme. Working with this plugin helped me to find misbehaving plugins. Since then it works like a charm.

I have very good experience with their support ( for free version ). I think when you subscribe for a Pro version you will be really satisfied.