[theme-reviewers] Themes With Customizable Logos *and Featured Images*

[Chip Bennett]

Well, we'll see how the developer responds (if at all).

I put both the Header Image and Post Thumbnail implementation under
Required, but gave code examples that should pretty well be cut-and-paste to
implement both.

Chip

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> This does seem a good use-case for the_post_thumbnail the way it is being
> described ...
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The idea looks feasible for using Post-Thumbnail but I can also see it as
>>> having the potential to have two different images representative of the post
>>> whereas the custom fields would support the second image. The author is
>>> suggesting the theme is testing for the custom field <featuredimage -
>>> image_URL> key-pair ... which may conflict with testing for an existing
>>> Featured Image provided via post_thumbnail.
>>>
>>> Technically speaking both could be used on a post and both images could
>>> be different ... or the same. That would be at the end-user's discretion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cais.
>>>
>>> PS: I did not look at the code to see if post_thumbnial is being
>>> implemented already. EAC
>>
>>
>> It's not. The Theme isn't using the_post_thumbnail() anywhere (and doesn't
>> add_theme_support() for them, either.
>>
>> And it's using the custom field merely as a "featured image" - which is
>> *exactly* what the Post Thumbnail is called on the edit-post page.
>> Basically, it would be asking users, instead of using the functionality
>> they're used to seeing for featured images, adding them as a custom field
>> instead.
>>
>> Chip
>>
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