Hello,
I just purchased the theme last week and have a developer to install it.
I finally heard back from him with this comment:
… You have nearly 6500 posts, and unfortunately all of them are set up “incorrectly”.
What I am referring to is that none of the posts use the featured image function. Instead, the primary image is just embedded as part of the post text. This approach is very outdated and most WordPress themes do not even support this anymore.
So we are left with two options to get things working properly: manually add a featured image to every post OR try to find a work around and edit the theme (I am working on this right now).
I’m looking for a plugin that could accomplish this as I am sure that this is not the first time someone has come across this issue.
I’ll keep you posted as things progress.
A little surprised here, as I thought that featured images is an optional function.
Are images in the posts really outdated and is it possible to set up the Newspaper theme
with my current posts, which have images inside each post (top, alignment none)
Thanks
My current them is suffusion by sayontan, which displayed images just fine
Hi
most modern themes have moved to using the built-in thumbnail system in WordPress which uses the “featured” post to tell the system which image should be used for the thumbnail. Older themes (including many I still use like “Canvas’) use both the “featured” method with alternate timthumb method which would grab “first image placed in post.”
However, there is an awesome plugin called “regenerate thumbnails” which can make new thumbnails *and* make all them the featured image.
If you end up with two images on posts, you need to deactivate the “show featured images” in the Newspaper theme customizer (this is what I did). So, for new posts I place my main image, and any additional images into post as per old skool way, then on right side under featured image select the one I want to appear on home page and indexes, and most of the time in social media, and then you’re set.
Thanks very much for the suggestions, Simmons and Marius!
I will try them and
let you know how it went 🙂
