Jon Asked: How to add thumbnails above post on the THiCK theme

By Austin on February 10, 2009

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I was asked by a reader:

I’m using the THiCK theme for my new design blog. I noticed you were able to add thumbnail images above your blog posts on the home page. What would I need to do to enable this on my blog?

Well Jon, this can be done very simple, since the theme is already using the Tim Thumb script.

What you will need to do is find in your index.php file, the second loop. Which you can find on line 40.

<?php query_posts('offset=1&showposts=' . get_option('woo_other_entries') . '&cat=-' . $GLOBALS['ex_asides'] ); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>	

	<div class="post">
		<h2><a title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
		<div class="post-meta"><?php the_time('j/m/y'); ?> <span>|</span> <?php comments_popup_link('0 Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></div>
		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
	</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

Now we are going to add in the code. At line 43 we are going to add:

<?php if (get_option('woo_resize')) { // Check if we should use the image resizer ?>
                    <a title="Continue reading this entry..." href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/thumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", $single = true); ?>&amp;h=80&amp;w=280&amp;zc=1&amp;q=90" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
                <?php } else { ?>
                    <a title="Continue reading this entry..." href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "image", $single = true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
                <?php } ?>

That’s it, just make sure that in the THiCK options panel you choose the “resize” option, or the image might break the layout. Or you may change the this code: $post->ID, "image", to: $post->ID, "image_thumb", and use a separate image for the lower blog.

11 responses to “Jon Asked: How to add thumbnails above post on the THiCK theme”

Jon Engle
February 11, 2009 at 1:22 pm | Permalink | Reply

Thanks for the post! I’m going to try this out this afternoon.
1. Austin
  February 11, 2009 at 1:54 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  Absolutely, let me know how it goes!
Thomas
February 20, 2009 at 1:23 pm | Permalink | Reply

I tried this but the the image double up the main featured article. So I have the Large image and then the smaller thumbnail under it. Both lead to the same entry.
1. Austin
  February 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  Hmm, that’s seems odd.
Thomas
February 21, 2009 at 7:43 am | Permalink | Reply

Nevermind, I was inserting on the wrong line. Looks like it was Line 45 for me.
1. Austin
  February 21, 2009 at 7:17 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  Oh, Sorry about that. Maybe I shouldn’t write what line it may be on.
  Hope it works out! Just remember to look for the correct php code as well.
cesar
February 22, 2009 at 9:09 pm | Permalink | Reply

thanks for the post.
I don’t know much about code, and I’m having the same problem of Thomas.
Could you show the exacto point to insert the code?

THANKS!!
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March 20, 2009 at 7:21 am | Permalink | Reply

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Adrian Vianna
March 31, 2009 at 12:31 pm | Permalink | Reply

Worked out nicely. I have another questions where would we go to do this on the actual category post in this theme.
Adrian Vianna
March 31, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink | Reply

Oh I got it. I added the same code in the first loop to the archives.php and you got a thumbnail for your category post.

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1. Austin
  March 31, 2009 at 1:11 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  Yeah, that will take care of that!