Get specific images for recent posts thumbnail.

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  devibbrooks · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 4:30 am

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  HI! One last question, I swear.

  For my recent posts widget I used the short code to allow it to show thumbnails, but it will only show a thumbnail image if a featured image is present in a post. Due to the way my theme shows featured images, I don’t want to use any. Is there a way to manipulate the short code to show whatever image I want?

  Thanks…

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  amightywp · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 2:48 pm

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  Hiya,

  Sadly there is not any way to specify some other image through the shortcode when you’re using the Display-Posts shortcode. If you’re interested in it, you might (I haven’t looked in to it yet, but if this solution appeals to you I can) be able to place a featured image and then have it removed from your posts via CSS, allowing the look you want in your sidebar.

  To test it, you would need to do a post with a featured image, and I would need to work on it (and again, no promises!), but I could see what I can do.

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  devibbrooks · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 9:02 pm

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  Hey!

  I actually figured out how to do that (thanks!), but now I have a different problem: I want my recent posts width to be 200px, but when I have it at that width the text won’t stay below the image. I also want go get rid of the circle next to the image. Is there a code for that?

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  devibbrooks · Member · Jul 22, 2014 at 2:26 am

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  Nevermind! I figured it out. Thanks! :)

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  amightywp · Member · Jul 22, 2014 at 7:16 am

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  Ah! Glad you worked it all out.

  Have a great week. :)