scorpion3367

I have not but will give it a shot. There could be a language barrier to overcome but let’s see what happens.

That was my thought as well and was one of the first things I did.
I am only using a single caching plugin called Cache Enabler (v.1.1.0) by KeyCDN.
I checked out the page you indicated and you’re right. So now there are two pages on which this plugin functions. What I can’t seem to figure out is the selectivity. Why only these two pages if the footer is common across every page and post on the website?
What am I missing?

Affirmative.

Just following up on your reply from two weeks ago to see whether this was an ongoing ‘work in progress’ or has perhaps inadvertently fallen by the wayside due to other more immediately pressing matters.
I’m still experiencing the same issue and as a result, have had to manually upload the featured image to the Media Library in order for it to appear on the Post Summary Page.
It’s interesting to note that the Featured Image appears just fine on the actual post based on an external URL but it’s still hit and miss (50/50 maybe?) that the same photo will appear on the Blog Post Summary Page.
No pressure or anything but It’d sure be nice to get this resolved before my Media Library becomes a nightmare to navigate based on all the images I’m having to store there.
If you need an example, I’m able to provide that now as I recently migrated the site in question from the local host to a live shared-hosting web server.

Thanks Kadence. That now looks fantastic.

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Thanks Kadence. I did actually experiment with the virtue:recent posts widget initially but found that the inclusion of the thumbnail images took up more sidebar real estate than I wanted to give up. I’m only listing 5 posts by default (in some cases only 3) and I’d like to keep them as high up on the sidebar as I possibly can.
To that end, the required CSS to replace the default icon in the normal WP widget would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration in this regard.

That absolutely worked. Thanks Kevin!

Changed the Reading Setting for Post Page to blank and that did the trick. Thank you.

Nice! I’m sure that’ll be a bonus ‘new feature’ to be able to promote as well.
Any idea what sort of time frame you had in mind to complete this update so I have a rough idea as to when I can continue site development?

Hi Kevin,
Clearing the cache (all 638 MB of it) didn’t seem to have any impact.
I’ve also noticed that after curating several more articles and stories for the blog that it’s still a bit of hit and miss with getting the external featured image to display on the Blog Post Summary Page. In other words, it seems to work the majority of the time, but not all of the time.
Two stories in particular that I posted to the blog this morning via the Content Curation plugin did not display the featured image on the Post Summary Page whereas they do appear on their respective post pages.
For reference purposes, the two articles originated from the following sources:
1) https://www.foodbeast.com/news/6-foods-that-one-food-poisoning-expert-will-never-eat/
2) https://www.canadiangrocer.com/top-stories/offset-high-food-prices-by-throwing-out-less-say-experts-61616

The respective HTML for the featured photos in the Post Editor (for both posts) is as follows:
1) <img class=”alignleft curated_image” src=”https://cdn.foodbeast.com/content/uploads/2016/01/food-poisining.jpg ” alt=”” />

2) <img class=”alignleft curated_image” src=”https://www.canadiangrocer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/foodwaste-lead-360×238.png ” alt=”” />

So the URL for the image source is clearly evident in the HTML code in both cases and as I indicated, the photos do appear both when toggling from the Text (HTML) tab over to the ‘Visual’ tab in the Editor and also in each individual post.
When I navigate back over to the Blog Post Summary Page however, no image and curiously, no standard 600 x 600 px placeholder either. What does appear is the Text Title as an active link back to the respective post page for both stories.
To perhaps get a better idea visually of what I’m trying to explain, I have uploaded a few screen captures to my current web host server which can be accessed here: https://www.shopndeliver.ca/Screenshot-Documentation.pdf
*Note that the provided screenshot example is not based on either of the two posts referred to above but is an entirely separate article. The issue however is identical.
Hope this helps. If there’s anything else I can provide, please let me know.

It appears as though I may have jumped the gun.
While inserting the code you provided worked like a charm in displaying the external featured photo on the blog post summary page, when one scrolls further down the page and arrives at the recent posts carousel, the same issue is encountered (blank placeholders). In hindsight, I probably should have taken that into consideration as well.
I guess I made an assumption (which was obviously wrong on my part and that’s on me) that this area would also have been populated in the same way by the same external featured image.
Having said that however, is there an additional snippet of code that needs to be added or a slight code modification that would allow these images to appear in the Recent Posts Carousel as well?
If so and once again, I would ever so appreciative if that could be suggested/provided and I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this lack of foresight on my part may have caused.
Respectfully,
scorpion3367

Hi Marcel,
I believe that setting was disabled by default and I didn’t turn it on so there was nothing to disable.
At any rate, the Theme Developer was able to provide me with a custom php code snippet to insert into the functions.php file that has resolved the issue.
I will continue however to keep your plugin activated as I may have need for it in the future to display external video sources.
Thank you for your time and effort!

Thank you Kadence Support!
Already had the child theme from the Kadence website in place (just in case).
Added the code you suggested, closed the php tag (not sure if that was really necessary), saved the file, refreshed the page and bada-boom, bada-bing, success!
Thank you for your time and effort in resolving this.

Hi Marcel,
Yes, it seems to function correctly using the 2016 Theme.
In order to make it work properly however, I did actually have to remove the External Featured Image URL from the meta box because there were identical duplicate images being displayed on both the past page and the post summary page.
(*Note: there is already a reference to the image embedded via the Post Editor’s HTML field).
-SZ-