Easy Code for Featured Images in WordPress®

Below is a really easy code sample for utilizing featured images in WordPress^®.

To implement this you would basically just copy and paste the code snippet (found in text format below) where you want to utilize the featured image section in WordPress^® and the $featured_image variable would return the URL of the featured image.  The ‘else’ part of the statement sets a fallback (default) photo if a featured image is not chosen for a specific page.

Simple, but nice.

FOR COPYING & PASTING PURPOSES:

<?php

if(has_post_thumbnail()) { // check if the post has a Featured Image.

$photo = get_the_post_thumbnail();

$featured_image = explode(‘”‘, $photo);

$featured_image = $featured_image[‘1’];

} else {

$featured_image = ‘/wp-content/themes/paperstreet/images/default.jpg’;

}

?>