Custom field not working to show featured image

greymann · May 20, 2014, 10:01am

Greetings. I’m following a tutorial for creating custom wordpress themes. I’m told to create a custom field with the name large_preview and for value paste in the URL of an image, which I’ve done in my first post.

In my index.php here’s the part I have that calls for the custom field, I think:

<?php if (get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘large_preview’,true)) { ?>

<?php } ?>

Yet the image does not show besides in the top featured post: http://breakthroughchurch.com/doodling/

Also I do not have the featured image option available in wordpress, I assume because of my custom theme. I tried adding the line “add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );” to functions.php but I still do not have option to add freatured image.

Any help offered is much appreciated. Thanks, Chris.

scottlpool2003 · May 20, 2014, 10:32am

Are you sure you don’t have the set featured image option? If I remember rightly, it’s on the add post page on the right hand side. That’s part of Wordpress not part of the custom theme so it should be there?

greymann · May 20, 2014, 11:13am

Thanks. No, on the right side I have Publish, Catagories and Tags… no featured image. I had it there when I installed WP but since installing my custom theme I’m not seeing it. I thought the answer was it had to be added to functions.php but I’ve tried on no luck.

scottlpool2003 · May 21, 2014, 8:17am

Is this any use? http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

greymann · May 21, 2014, 9:33am

It sure is. Strangely I added that line to functions.php before but the one they provided worked. I now have the featured image box. I then had to call for it correctly in index.php and take out references to the large_preview custom field. Thanks a ton.

scottlpool2003 · May 21, 2014, 9:42am

Glad you got it sorted.