can I have thumbnails on my category pages
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I am working on a wordpress.com website for a client, where the posts have usually got photos associated with them. I’d like the first photo on a post, to show up on lists of posts (like, the category and archive pages).
I can do that with a plugin or code-hack on a wordpress.org website, but not a wordpress.com website (so far).
Many thanks for advice!
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Are you refering to : http://scormeny.wordpress.com/
You can have images on category and archive pages in many themes:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-you-create-pages-with-just-short-excerpts-of-posts?replies=9#post-296195 -
One caveat, I think, is that you cannot link the pictures to the article. At least not in my theme. (digg3)
The post titles work, though.I discovered this after I made links only to find that they end up in an endless loop:
trying to open “http://1tess.wordpress.com/category/soup/1tess.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/ozoni-new-years-day-soup/”
Unless this is a bug? Or maybe I did the links incorrectly? -
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<a href="POST_URL_HERE"><img src="IMAGE_URL_HERE"></a>
(original image size)<a href="POST_URL_HERE"><img src="IMAGE_URL_HERE" width="200" /></a>
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Oh, sorry. Ugh. I wasn’t clear. My apologies.
I did not write that! I meant that when I’m on a category page, or a tag page, that is the sort of message I get from Safari. Foxfire just goes into a loop and then tells me it’s an endless loop.
I see now that I did not say, “When I go to an archives page, the image links work just fine.”
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If you go to look, go back to November or December archives. Most posts in January don’t have the except / image link.
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I already did, dear! And this shouldn’t be happening: category and archive pages are the same sort of thing. Before pronouncing your links incorrect, I tested that in my blog (of courrrse!), using Digg3, and it works fine in both categories and archives (and with both Firefox and Safari). I’ll look at your code and see If I can come up with an answer.
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Checked the code of your November 5 post. Instead of
<a href="URL_OF_POST_HERE">
you’ve got
<a title="Persimmon Gelatin" href="1tess.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/persimmon-puree-gelee/">
(plus target-blank, but that’s ok.)What’s the title doing there, and where’s the http of the url? Eh?
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The http is missing because I don’t want ping-backs from the link. I works in all of my other posts:
This one in the first paragraph: http://1tess.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/tuna-hot-pot-two/
I learned that from somewhere in the FAQs, I think.The title gets inserted when I use the visual editor, advanced settings. Again, it’s on nearly all my images.
See this plain unadorned link here on a tag-page, in the excerpt for Tori Nabe, first line:
http://1tess.wordpress.com/tag/japanese-recipes/page/2/ -
Well, the pingback thing was not learned from FAQs:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/04/23/can-i-stop-self-pings/
But I’ve been leaving off just the http:// for months and months. The self-pings were annoying because I link from recipe to recipe often.
Interesting though? -
Yes, but that’s what’s probably causing the loop. Now I’m not so sure, however: I tried it in my blog and it gave me a “not found” message, not a loop. But I can’t search any more now.
(But frankly, what’s the use of having those image links? We’ve got the title for that.)
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The above refers to your previous post. I’m completely out of depth when it comes to pings and pongs, as I’m not using them.
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WordPress does it automatically.
Unless you link your articles, you likely don’t notice.
Or if you have comments turned off, you wouldn’t notice either. -
Back to the tag-page, in the excerpt for Tori Nabe, first line:
http://1tess.wordpress.com/tag/japanese-recipes/page/2/
I changed the link in the image to include the http://
and now it works!So, that is one mystery solved.
My email just beeped at me and I thought it was notification of the annoying pingback, but it was a pingback from someone else!! synchronicity. -
I have comments off in my articles, and on in one page reserved for visitors’ comments and questions. And what does “link my articles” mean? Having links to other articles of mine or to other sites? (I do both, but not much.)
So in general I really don’t understand these things (oh yes!) If you’d care to elaborate… (But actually I think I only deserve a: “Jesus, read the FAQs”!)
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for get the “first line:” reference in the previous post. (forgot to delete it)
The self-ping prevention must work differently in the excerpts than in regular posts.
But when I got the idea to be fancy by linking the pictures in the excerpts in archives, categories and tags, I tested it using archives. I could use the drag and drop technique with the 2 browser windows to get the images into each post’s excerpt and move from one post sequentially to the next.
I assumed that tags, categories, and archives all make the same kind of pages that would act alike. Maybe it has something to do with the way wordpress uses categories and tags in such a similar way? That I need the http… in the link? But who would have thought they’d act differently?
Lesson learned: never volunteer, and never assume.
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