Rowling theme: Feature Image Problem
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Not setting a feature image makes it so no image is shown for the post on the home page, but setting a feature image makes the image appear twice within the post. Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?
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Hi,
setting a feature image makes the image appear twice within the post.
I don’t find any instances of a featured image appearing twice in a post on the Rowling demo. Have you encountered the same issue with the Expound theme?
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No, that’s why I switched to the Expound theme. But I like Rowling better if it weren’t for that problem. It looks very unprofessional.
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The Expound theme doesn’t display featured images on the single posts. See, for example, the posts “Taking Shape,” and “Winding roads all from the sky” of the Expound demo. The front page of the demo displays a featured image thumbnail for each of these posts, though the single posts themselves not only don’t display a featured image, but have no images or videos in the post content from which a thumbnail might be drawn.*
I believe the result you obtained when using the Rowling theme was due to the fact that you added a featured image to posts for which you already had a version of the same image inserted in the post content. That would result in essentially the same image appearing twice on the single posts.
Featured images aren’t typically drawn from post content to appear as thumbnails on the posts page, though they may be drawn in this manner to appear as thumbnails on archives pages with some themes.
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* There is at least one case in the Expound demo where a thumbnail appears on the front page (posts page) for a post that contains only a video. However, no posts page thumbnail was drawn from an image or video in post content in any of my tests with this theme activated.
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OK I switched the theme back so people can see the problem.
musicdoc1, that’s very annoying if it’s like that because I want to have the text wrapped beside the image, and I need to be able to caption images for attribution. If I get rid of the image in the text area, I’m just left with the one huge image above the article and it looks pretty lame. I just want the image I use in the post to also appear on the homepage as a thumbnail.
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If you still prefer the Rowling theme, I believe you could hide featured images from single posts, but it would require CSS customization. If you want to learn more about that possibility you may either submit a separate request to the CSS Customization support forum, or add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention.
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Hi Colin,
As @musicdoc1 noted, you could make use of some custom CSS to hide the featured image from single posts using some custom CSS.
The option of adding CSS is included as part of our WordPress.com Premium and Business plans.
If you choose to upgrade, then add the following snippet to the CSS panel of the WordPress.com Customizer to achieve what you’re after:
.single-post .post-image { display: none; }If you don’t wish to upgrade then you could consider a different theme that works in the way you intend by default.
Apostrophe, for example, share Rowling’s grid-like home page but only displays a post’s featured image on the home page, not on the individual post.
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