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Marina Ferreira
Marina Ferreira
6,276 Points
Posted by Marina Ferreira
Marina Ferreira
6,276 Points

Display post image on homepage

Hi! I'm trying to display an image (added via "add media" button) from a blog post (not custom post), on my homepage, but I cannot get the url right. Does anyone knows how to reference the file name. I tried : get_the_post_thumbnail( ); and got nothing, added an if statement with has_post_thumbnail( $post_id ); that returns false, tried get_attached_file($x); and nothing...... any thoughts?? Thanks so much!

2 Answers

gopi p
gopi p
9,259 Points
gopi p
gopi p
9,259 Points

Hey marina,

Hope this could be helpful http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail

cheers

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

You need to add theme support for thumbnails and then it's just the reference in the loop you need. the_post_thumbnail.

Codex has everything you need and it's literally two lines of code to get it working. :)