Display All Images Attached To A Post Without A Plugin

I’m not sure what you mean? If you mean how would you get the images to a specific post, you would have to know it’s ID as you can’t get attachments via a post title (name) just in case there are two posts with the title.

Hi,

The code seems to be working okay. The reason your images don’t work is because your path looks like this:

http://tusovka.in.ua/blog/wp-content/themes/alltuts/thumb.php?src=http://tusovka.in.ua/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/9631704.jpg&w=92&h=69&zc=1

The image url

http://tusovka.in.ua/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/9631704.jpg

Gets us to the image fine. However

http://tusovka.in.ua/blog/wp-content/themes/alltuts/thumb.php

Gives a 404.

My advice would be to triple check the path to your thumb.php file as it seems to be incorrect.

Hope that helps.

For this to work the main image will always have to be the last one.

Add in this on line 8, that’s before the foreach starts:

$last = end($attachments);

Then place the next part inbetween line 9 & 10:

if($last->ID == $attachment->ID) {
    break;
}

I’m unable to test that at the minute, but I think it should work. Let me know if you get any errors & I’ll fix them asap.

No problem, glad it worked & glad I could help you out.

Hi Dai,

It is timthumb that is used on the wallpaper site. It should cause an error if it isn’t, but is GD available on your server?

Have you checked to see if timthumb created a folder called ‘cache’. That’s where it places it’s created images. If you don’t have one, try creating the folder (in the same directory as timthumb) and make it writeable.

That’s all I can think of that would stop timthumb from working properly. Hope it helps.

No problem Ruben. Glad it was helpful.

Hi Bueno,

Well it’s pretty easy since you already have all the attachments ordered by menu order (that’s the numbered order you set in the WordPress uploader). All you have to do is only access the first one instead of running the foreach.

So to get the URL to the first image your code might look something like:

<?php
$attachments = get_children(array('post_parent' => $post->ID,
						'post_status' => 'inherit',
						'post_type' => 'attachment',
						'post_mime_type' => 'image',
						'order' => 'ASC',
						'orderby' => 'menu_order ID'));

    $full_img_url = wp_get_attachment_url($attachments[0]->ID);
    //Whatever you want to do here...
?>

As you can see you still need to pass it through the wp_get_attachment_url function. You just don’t need the loop as you only want the first item in the array.

One thing to note. If you are wanting to use custom thumbnails and you want to grab a thumbnail size instead of the full size image you will need to use wp_get_attachment_image_src instead. The first parameter is the ID & the second is the name you gave to the thumbnail size when you set it up in your theme.

That will return an array of which the URL to the image is in [0].

Hope that helps.

Sorry that was my fault. Using [0] won’t work as the key is the ID of the attachment. You’d need to do this instead.

<?php
$attachments = get_children(array('post_parent' => $post->ID,
						'post_status' => 'inherit',
						'post_type' => 'attachment',
						'post_mime_type' => 'image',
						'order' => 'ASC',
						'orderby' => 'menu_order ID'));
    $attachment = current($attachments);
    $full_img_url = wp_get_attachment_url($attachment);
    //Whatever you want to do here...
?>

Giving the error you get is always a good idea.

From looking at the code though, you haven’t closed PHP wrote your image element & then reopened it.

It should go like this:

<?php
$attachments = get_children(array('post_parent' => $post->ID,
					'post_status' => 'inherit',
					'post_type' => 'attachment',
					'post_mime_type' => 'image',
					'order' => 'ASC',
					'orderby' => 'menu_order ID'));
$attachment = current($attachments);
$full_img_url = wp_get_attachment_url($attachment);
?>
	<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/thumb.php?src=<?php echo $full_img_url; ?>&w=70&h=70&zc=1" alt="" />

Nope definitely outside. The syntax error is showing because it is finding an open PHP tag inside a PHP tag.

The reason it’s not working is simply because I forgot to add a little bit to line 9 of the code I posted above. It should be:

$full_img_url = wp_get_attachment_url($attachment->ID);

I’ve just tested it on my local server & it works fine.

Hi Bueno,

No problem.

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Hi James,

You just don’t include the post_parent parameter as that tells it just to grab the images that below to a certain post. If you’ll want to add in numberposts though or it will pull back every single image in one go & if you have a lot (over 100) that could cripple your website.

Anywhere you use this code it will automatically add the new one when you upload a new image without any modifications.

I’m afraid it’s not that simple (and your code got a little mangled by WordPress).

You have to place it in a template file. There is an explanation of how to create them on the Codex as it would take to long to explain here in the comments. Although the easiest way is to copy the page.php or post.php file.

It’s not the easiest thing to explain, sorry. I’m going to try and do some tutorials on how to do some basic things in WP like create new templates, but it’s hard to find time at the minute.

No problem James.

If you want to test it you could always make the copy & assign the template to a draft or private page. That way no one but you can see it.

Hi Greg,

That function get_the_post_thumbnail() is a WP function used to get thumbnails from a list that have been predefined in your theme, generally in functions.php.

If you want to use the size generated by ‘bones-full-662′ all you need to do is do this inside your post loop:

the_post_thumbnail('bones-full-662', array('class' => 'alignleft'));

You can of course change the class to whatever you like.

If you want to add another thumbnail size you would need to add it to the list of sizes that WordPress needs to generate. You can do that using:

add_image_size('unique-key', 100, 200, true);

where ‘unique-key’ is a meaningful key you use when telling WP which thumbnail it should get. The two numbers are width & height respectively & the last bool is whether to hard crop the image or not.

You would place that line next the the other add_image_size() function calls that are somewhere in your theme. Like I said, they are probably in functions.php.

Once you’ve done that you will need to run a thumbnail regenerator plugin like the one by Viper007Bond. You only need to run it once, and then it can be deactivated & removed. This will run through all your previously uploaded images & create the newly created thumbnail size for each one.

Hope that helps answer your question. If you have any problems please let me know.

No problem Greg.

Looks like it should be great when you’ve got everything working. Using a post rather than a gallery is a great idea, especially when combined with a custom post type. Not only does it help organize the front end of things, but it helps make it really easy to add new items in the back end, brilliant if you have a client who may not be very tech savvy.

No problem Martin, hope it works for you.