putting pictures on recipe blog
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I have a recipe blog, and I can put pictures on each post no problem, but I want pictures in the recipe index, like a thumbnail, just a small key picture for each recipe so that they can see what the end product looks like as they’re browing the recipe index, so they don’t have to click on each recipe title and link just to see what it looks like. I currently have a free wordpress account and I’m not sure if that’s the reason why I can’t figure this out, or if the free wordpress account offers this as well.
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Hi there,
Are you speaking of the page at https://realfoodsmom.wordpress.com/recipes/?
I see currently you’re adding links to that page manually. if you do it that way, you’ll need to also add the image for each manually.
But there is a way to automate this. If you use the display posts shortcode on that page, the code can be configured to show only the post title and a thumbnail of the featured image. And then you can use a separate shortcode for each different type of recipe to group them together as you currently have them on that page using categories.
For example, to list your dinner recipes you’d use:
[display-posts image_size="thumbnail" category="dinner"]For desserts you’ll use:
[display-posts image_size="thumbnail" category="desserts"]And so on.
As long as you have a featured image set for each recipe post, and you have it assigned to the appropriate category, the list generated by the shortcode should then update automatically each time you publish a new post in the particular category.
You add this shortcode directly in the Visual mode in the editor. Detailed instructions here:
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