Default featured image

Hi Newspaper Team!
I have a question:
How to add a default featured image to all post that does not have images on it?

Website: http://www.elversiculodeldia.com/

Hi,
In this file single_template_4.php, Im editing these lines:

<?php
//if we have a featured image, show it
if (!empty($td_post_featured_image)) { ?>

td_js_buffer::add_to_footer(
'jQuery().ready(function() {' . "\r\n" .
'jQuery("#td-full-screen-header-image").backstretch("' . $td_post_featured_image . '", {fade:1200, centeredY:false});' . "\r\n" .
'});'
);
}
else {
echo '';
}
?>

But it does not having the same efects, how can I set it to work?

Thanks in avance!

Hello there!
I have a specific problem. All images hosted on my server is accidentally deleted and now I have thousand article with broken (featured) link images. I have tried Image placeholder option as you mentioned above, but in vain. Only if I manually delete featured images, image placeholder is shown.
What to do? :/

Hi Lucinan!

Thanks for reply! And I have to do this job every time when I update theme?

Thanks in advance

Unfortunately, this solution doesn’t work. It shows only placeholder thumbs even for articles which have featured image.

I want to make clear: Image placeholder doesn’t work if featured images is setted but missing.

• This reply was modified 11 years by Sandall.

You might try the plugin I use a lot … Auto Post Thumbnail Pro (on Envato) … it will create a new thumbnail and set as ‘featured’ based on first image in post, even if external image. I use it on all our sites as most of ours pre-date the use of ‘feautured’ image in WP, and so it’s an awesome tool. Might or might not be what you’re looking for, but it’s cheap. 🙂

Thank you for reply, Chris! But my posts don’t have any images in it. All images folder in wp-content has deleted and can’t be restored.

Ah, well Auto Post Thumbnail Pro also allows you to assign a default image to all posts and make that the featured image. Worth a look (I have not monetary interest in the plugin).

Thank you for your support, Chris. I have no doubt that this is the grat plugin, but despite all, I decided manually to remove all links and use Image placeholder from Tagdiv. I prefere the simplest solutions.
Issue solved 😀

Thanks again!

Cool… Well you posted the solution didnt work, so was suggesting a fix to set a featured image for posts without a featured image, and which fixes it permanently for wordpress and not theme specific.

Cheers.

@sandall Once the featured images are missing at the file level, the default image from the theme won’t work because the database still shows a featured is set, even though the file is missing.

I’ve been through something similar with imports and I was not able to find anything that could bulk modify the posts in question. You have to manually go through each post and unset the featured image. Another may be an SQL query to remove the featured image info from each post at the database level, but that’s advanced and needs to be undertaken by someone familiar with WordPress and MySQL.

Wish there was an easy fix for this. Good luck!