Hi, Today all of the featured images on my posts are not showing up on my front page, or in the ‘related articles’ or footer sections of my posts. In the posts, if I use the pagination, the images will load but not on initial page load or with any sections that do not have pagination. I have regenerated my thumbnails, and check the thumbs setting in the theme panel, but I am still not seeing the images populating.
Hi,
That looks like the default no-thumb placeholder which is displayed when the posts have no featured images set. Do the posts have featured images?
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/featured-image-or-video/
How did it look before? If there are no featured images then the placeholders would be displayed at all times.
Hi,
Thanks for replying. Yes, all posts have featured images. I do have a plugin (Conditionally display featured image on singular pages and posts) that hides the featured image from the post in singular views, and only displays them in list views, but this has been working properly and thumbs were showing. In the post view, if I use the pagination for related articles, the thumbs load, but not when the page initially loads.
It seems that plugin may have started breaking my thumbs. I disabled it and everything seems to be working properly now.
It looks like this is what the problem was. I had made a post on Facebook that linked to the site, but there was no image on the link. I wasn’t sure why that was happening but thought maybe because there was no featured image on the front page. I added a featured image to the home page and selected the option to hide the featured image from the page. When I did that, it broke all the thumbs.
Ultimately, the plugin was redundant and removing it didn’t change anything, since I am using a post template that doesn’t use a featured image, anyway. Everything seems to be working properly now on all pages. Thanks for your help!
P.S. Any idea why Facebook is not pulling an image from the site for links to it?
Glad you solved it. Indeed, there are a couple of post templates that don’t display the featured images in the post page (templates 5 and 12 I believe).
Also there is an option to not display featured images in the theme panel
– https://www.screencast.com/t/YWBcBsLTuyW6
What image is served when sharing in Facebook would depend on your available OG data. Most SEO plugins will provide the necessary data for sharing. From what I can see this image is used when sharing one of your posts
– https://indefact.com/fact-check/fact-check-no-immigrants-cannot-apply-for-asylum-at-u-s-embassies-or-consulates-abroad-politifact/
– https://www.screencast.com/t/HWTnFTqkJ
That seems to be a default image of the all in one SEO plugin, maybe you need to check it’s settings, or try to specify an image for the shared post specifically. Yoast offers this per post for example.
