Question

What’s the best way to associate an image with a post in WordPress?

What I mean by that is when each post has a ‘header’ image which is not in the body of the post. You’d most likely use it to show a small image next to each post when they’re listed somewhere.

I know you can use custom fields with posts, but are there any better ways of doing it?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you go the custom field route – in your template code you can save the value of the custom field to a variable and then echo it out to your image.

<?php $post_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, post_image, true); ?> <?php if( $post_image != '' && isset($post_image) ) : ?>    <p><img src='<?php echo $post_image; ?>' alt='<?php echo $post_image; ?>' /></p> <?php endif; ?> <?php the_content('read more...'); ?> 

The function the_content() may or may not be what you will end up using – for more control, you can try setting a new WP_Query() and then revamping the loop.