This post is sort of an add on to a previous post about the problem of displaying thumbnails and pictures in the slideshow for certain articles in the Studiopress Lifestyle theme, 4.0.
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how long I do it, and how many blogs I build, there always seems to be something new to learn. It definitely keeps it interesting.
Anyway, in my post about the glitch when you input a “Custom Field” to place a thumbnail next to the excerpt of your posts on the main page, I told you that you can’t enter the entire URL of the image, you can only enter the directory and filename.
So, when I tried doing this for the images that show up in the slide show using the “Featured Content Gallery” I found that the opposite is true.
After installing and activating the “Featured Content Gallery” plugin, you’d normally go into the posts that you want to show up in the slide show and create a custom field called “articleimg.”
If you find yourself getting errors, like the images not showing up, go back and check your custom field within the post. If the entire url isn’t there, that could be your problem.
Example:
Wrong: /images/graphic.jpg
Right: http://www.yourdomainname.com/images/graphic.jpg
It can be confusing to remember that each of these custom fields need to be entered differently. The way I remember it is a bit simplistic, but it works.
The term “articleimg” is longer than the term “thumb.” So, I know to add the “longer” url to the longer term, “articleimg” and the shorter url to the shorter term, “thumb.”
Hope this helps. See you on the web!
