Tag Archives: featured image

Modify the Width of the New WordPress Twenty Twelve Theme

We just recently switched over to the new Twenty Twelve theme on VoodooPress, and it’s quite a nice theme! But one thing I saw immediately, it’s too narrow! I have been on a kick lately of trying to get all my sites to have nice, lightweight, clean themes. Twenty Twelve fits the bill. But it seems that everyone wants really narrow websites. A lot of folks have bigger monitors, I want to use some of that real estate. I’m not going to cover anything drastic here, but you can go as big or as small as you want with some careful planning. Note that, even though I’m showing how to make the theme wider, this will also work to make the theme narrower. Let’s dig in!

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Update to Working With Featured Images – Set a Default Image

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A while back, we had a pretty hand tutorial on how to work with the featured image functionality in WordPress. We covered a fair bit of useful info in that post. How to get going with the image, how to set sizes and use them, and how to display featured images. One thing we did was show, using a conditional, how to display a default image. Basically if an image isn’t set, display a selected image. A few people have asked how to actually set a default image as the featured image for a post if one isn’t set, rather than just display a default image. Here’s the trick:

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Set Your Featured Image Automagically From the First Image in the Post

CSS3 Lightbox Effect For Your Featured Images

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I keep mentioning that I’m slowly working on a custom theme for my personal blog. I work in fits and starts whenever something inspires me. Well today that inspiration struck! I saw this post from c.bavota of bavotasan.com and I really wanted to work this out. One of my main goals for my new theme is to keep things lightweight, and use css whenever possible. This gave me my opportunity! First you’ll need to check out the link above to see how the idea works. Then we adapt:

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Reader Request – Use Category Slug Based Images for Posts

Removing Site Title and Description to Finish Off Our Header in Twenty Ten Child Theme

Allowing Smaller Featured Images to Still Work as Header Image in a TwentyTen Child Theme

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So by now I’m sure we all realize that when you select a featured image for a page or a post using the twentyten theme, it becomes the header image for that page, or the single view of that post. But what if your picture is too small? Well, we can fix that in a child theme. Check it out!

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