The Theme developer is also using custom fields for "Featured Images", rather than supporting Post Thumbnails.<div><br></div><div>Here are the instructions:</div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
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<strong>How do I add the featured thumbnails to the sidebar gallery?</strong><br>You can select 8 posts to be featured. For each post,</p><ol><li>Add the “Featured” category.</li><li>Add a custom field with<br>Name = featuredimage<br>
Value = image url e.g <a href="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg">http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg</a> (recommended: 75px by 75px)</li></ol></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Any reason this shouldn't be done using core Post Thumbnails feature?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Making it a strongly recommended suggestion and providing the code is about all you can do ... but as its not a "specific" requirement, but one inferred from other criteria it is still at the authors discretion to use.<br>
<br>I would also suggest including your points in this thread with the comments to explain why what you are suggesting would be much better for the author and the theme end-users.<br><br><br>Cais.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Ryan Hellyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan@pixopoint.com" target="_blank">ryan@pixopoint.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>>> In this particular Theme, the documentation basically says, "A logo.psd<br>
>> and independence.ttf is included in the psd folder. Edit the psd file, save<br>
>> as logo.gif and upload to the images folder".<br>
<br>
>> At a minimum, it's a recommend with respect to Custom Image Header<br>
>> functionality. I'm leaning toward require.<br>
<br>
</div>Using a custom header like that then adds a "custom header" option in<br>
the admin panel, which the theme developer likely did not intend. So<br>
it should not be a requirement IMO.<br>
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Ryan,</font></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>It's a case-by-case consideration.</div><div><br></div><div>Take a look at the Theme in question: <a href="http://themereview.chipbennett.net" target="_blank">http://themereview.chipbennett.net</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>That "Food Recipe" is the header logo. The Theme gives instructions for how to change it. Thus, it would seem that the developer intends for it to be customizable.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I'm not so much concerned about whether or not the Theme developer "intended" for a "Custom Header" menu item to display in the users' back end, as I am concerned with whether or not the Theme developer intended for the header logo to be customizable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Again, these are the instructions he gives:</div><div><br></div></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(85, 85, 85);line-height:21px">A logo.psd and independence.ttf is included in the psd folder. Edit the psd file, save as logo.gif and upload to the images folder.</span></div>
</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>That implies to me that the logo is intended to be customizable. The core functionality vastly improves the user experience with respect to uploading customized logos.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All that it would take to implement the core feature would be:</div><div><br></div><div>1) include add_custom_image_header()</div><div>2) define the custom header image dimensions</div><div>3) define the default image</div>
<div><br></div><div>Easy peasy. In fact, I'm going to put the code into a comment on the ticket, to show how easy it would be to implement. </div><div><br></div><div>In the end, I don't see how this is all that much different from requiring wp_nav_menu() when a Theme is using wp_list_pages() as a navigation menu.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Chip</div></font></div>
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