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I tried this and it only returned this text:

/images/default.jpg

Any ideas how to fix this?

How would you return the ‘medium’ size version of the image? Seems like you would have to change the “return” method of display…

Any ideas? Thanks.

How can I get more than just the first image?

Have partially answered my question! I am using this coding to extract the first image from a post to display on a webpage in my website (not a WordPress blog). So, instead of adding the php coding into the functions.php file in my theme, I have placed it in the php on my webpage.
RESULT!

Pierre, take a look at these two sites. this might help to get the requested image from your gallery.

http://blogjunkie.net/2011/06/custom-size-thumbnail-with-fallback#comment-836

http://johnford.is/programmatically-pull-attachments-from-wordpress-posts/

Hi logesh, take a look here:

// get the first image attached to the current post
function aldenta_get_post_image($size = ‘thumbnail’) {
global $post;

$photos = get_children( array(‘post_parent’ => $post->ID, ‘post_status’ => ‘inherit’, ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order ID’) );

if ($photos) {
$photo = array_shift($photos);
return wp_get_attachment_image($photo->ID, $size);
}

return false;
}

// the html tag for the first image or false if no image is found
$photo = aldenta_get_post_image();

// end

more about this you will find here:
http://johnford.is/programmatically-pull-attachments-from-wordpress-posts

hope that helped as it did for me.

My theme (premium theme and purchased by themify) supports featured image but it creates another problems. If I don’t use featured image option in posts, homepage does not show images with the post meanwhile if I used featured post utility in post it shows single photo two times.

Can you help me how I can sort out this problem.

with thanks and regards,

Sunil

The code works fine but if you want to display the caption of the image?
Do you have any hint (something to add to the code) so it displays the central caption of the image rather than displaying thumbnail, full size or the distorted size?

Anyway this could work with pages? I want to get the first image of a specific page.

Hello, any chance you can tell me how to pull this image to another php page that will be displaying multiple blogs. The page I’m pulling to is on the same domain.. just pulling multiple blogs to one index.php. Please help!

Hello,
if you turn on the WP_Debug you will receive an Undefined offset 0 error on the line were this code 7 where this code is written : $first_img = $matches [1] [0];

is their any possible way to solve it, because my theme is not getting accepted in WordPress Respiratory because of that error.

To get next image, just change $matches [1] [0]; to $matches [1] [1]; or $matches [1] [2]; and so on.

Hi Daniel, really impressed with your efoort by helping all, thankss, i’ve a question too,

Now i’am having a Blog index page with latest posts only http://www.globalintegra.com/blog, i just want to include videos and photos in this blog index with setting minimum height to the post for videos and photos, after that i want continue reading as it placed now

@Ritesh Sanap
try the following code it should solve the problem .


function catch_that_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = '';
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
if(preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches)){
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
return $first_img;
}
else {
$first_img = "/images/default.jpg";
return $first_img;
}
}


Hi.

I love this and I’m implementing it in a theme I’m working on right now.
There is however one thing I’m missing. Is there a way to make the image clickable? So when I click the image. It will for example open the original image in lightbox?

Very useful, thanks a lot!

Hi there,

Thanks in advance. I did not view image. Only i view the image link. Not image. Any idea?

Great!
Is there possibility to modify the first part of code to automatically enter and save the image in the wordpress media and then add it as Featured Image?
Thx

Nice, any idea for get the image when the post has only a gallery shortcode ([gallery link="file" orderby="rand" rows="3"]) in his content?

hi,

how to put image path in first_img.. i using my path not working.. any php code include before the image path.

I was hoping this would fix a problem I have but it doesn’t. Can anyone tell me what I could do to choose first image attached? Basically I have a site where there is a upload form for each post. Registered users can submit photos which ARE attached to the post. If I log in and look at the post it shows them all as ATTACHED.

When I use the above code it goes straight to the default backup IMG. Any suggestions for my scenario?

Please help! I tried inserting this and have managed to break my site
:-< got a fatal error and want to cry :'(

Thanks for the function, it works pretty good.
Here is a code sample from my modified home page – It restricts the number of posts as well as orderby date.
8, 'order'=> 'DESC', 'orderby' => 'post_date' );
$postslist = get_posts( $args );
foreach ($postslist as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>

I also use Jquery to hide the default image.

Good luck!

Very usefull…but, the image is the thumbnail one ex: image-188×145.jpg, is it possible to get the full size image or to automaticly change the name with no -188×145

Exemple:

If name is -188×145.jpg than .jpg

Thanks

Trying to modify a theme which used to display image only if it has featured image and not first image. This function seems interesting to me. Will try it at local host and once it truly works, I’ll upload the code to live site.
I’ll comeback later with success story or a question when it fail.

‘Arick

Danny and/or Michael,
this function returns a url or relative directory (e.g. /wp-content/uploads/13/01/09/example-img.png) so if you were to get more than one image, it would change how you use the output.

if you use this as intended

two images in that src will cause problems so we don’t want to have the function output $matches[1][0] and $matches[1][1] and $matches[1][2]. Nor do we want to lop through that array getting all of the results.

We can pass a variable into the function denoting which image to get (see below)

function catch_that_image($which_image = 0) {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all(‘//i’, $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [$which_image];

if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}

Then when using the function simply add the image number into the function, and then you can get as many images as you want, this way.

and so on.. and so on.. You get the idea. I would suggest using this method however I have not tested it myself

if you need to catch all the images regardless of how many there are, try:

function catch_all_those_images() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all(‘//i’, $post->post_content, $matches);

return $matches;
}

foreach($matches[1] as $image_src){
echo “”
}

And when you need to use the function, don’t put it inside of the src attribute just “catch_all_those_images()”

Again, not tested.

Edit Post maybe?
I killed the preg_match_all function somehow.


function catch_that_image($which_image = 1) {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = '';
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all('//i', $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches[1][$which_image-1];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = "/images/default.jpg";
}
return $first_img;
}


The function returns the last image found. To get the first, use /U at the end of the regular expression instead of /i. Also, the url will be in $matches[1] not in $matches[1][0]. This way it will stop at the first result found.

Thank you, this is great!

Hi, can anyoe tell me how to get the second image from my post, i have searched about it alot but didn’t find an appropriate solution
Thanks

The default image path won’t work for category or search listings with pretty permalinks turned on!

Hey, it’s possible to grab the medium size image?

This function only gets the original image, I would like to get the medium one.

Cheers,

Telmo