Find out how to display the featured image before each post in Genesis Framework child themes using code.
By default, some Genesis child themes, such as Genesis Sample, do not display the featured image in the posts.
Do you want the featured image to appear at the beginning of posts? No problem.
You can get it with the Genesis Framework hooks. This would be the final result:
Snippet to display the featured image in posts
Add this fragment to the end of the functions.php file:
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With this code you make the featured image appear just before the title in all blog posts.
On the other hand, you can choose the size of the image to be displayed, in this case it would be the custom ‘post-image‘ size, but you can use the one that suits you best.
For example, these are the default WordPress sizes you could use:
// WordPress default sizes
the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ); // Miniature (150 x 150px)
the_post_thumbnail( 'medium' ); // Medium (300 x 300 maximum height of 300px)
the_post_thumbnail( 'medium_large' ); // Medium large (768 x 0 infinite height)
the_post_thumbnail( 'large' ); // Large (1024 x 1024 maximum height of 1024px)
the_post_thumbnail( 'full' ); // Maximum resolution (original size uploaded to the library)You can finish adjusting the distance from the image to the title with a little CSS. For example, in Genesis Sample it’s very tight and adding this snippet at the end of the style.css allows the design to breathe better.
/* Adjust title distance */
.single-post .attachment-post-image {
padding-bottom: 20px;
}If you prefer, you can also get the same effect in a Custom Post Type.
Conclusions
With a small code snippet you can make sure that the featured image appears at the beginning of the entries in any Genesis Framework child theme.
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