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

[Edward Caissie]

I noticed your comments regarding both ... hopefully the author will see the
benefits of implementing those functions as per your examples or with code
of their own.


Cais.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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