Yuriy Stepanov

<p>The pluginplug-in, with two additional SQL queries, joins the original data sample $wp_query->posts all meta fields, all files and images, for each image the direct url to small, medium, and large image is formed. There’s no need to use functions the_post_thumbnail  and get_post_meta.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<p>So let’s say we go to the home page of our blog, WordPress gives us a list of the latest 10 records. Let me remind you these are already in the global object in the array $wp_query-> posts. Let’s begin from creating a list of ID (number of records to which they are stored in the database).</p>
<h4>Form the first SQL query:</h4>
<ul>
<li>$query = “SELECT $wpdb->posts.* FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE  $wpdb->posts.post_parent IN(’21’,’29’,’30’,’35’,’38’,’42’,’46’,’48’,’49’,’55’) AND $wpdb->posts.post_parent<br />
AND $wpdb->posts.post_type = ‘attachment'”;</li>
</ul>
<p>A normal translation is «find all the child entries for entries with the numbers (’21 ‘, ’29?, ’30 ‘, ’35?, ’38 ‘, ’42?, ’46 ‘, ’48?, ’49 ‘, ’55 ‘)». And the type of records required to be «attachment». That is, in short, we find all the files (attachment) which we downloaded for our 10 entries.</p>
<p>Again we form a list of ID: the first 10 ID entries and add the ID of files (attachments). Attachments as ordinary records are stored in one table – wp_posts.</p>
<h4>Now we use the function update_meta_cache:</h4>
<ul>
<li>$all_meta = update_meta_cache(‘post’, $ar_all_id);</li>
</ul>
<p>$ar_all_id – here are the original recordings and attachments</p>
<p>So everything just gets in the cache and subsequent calls get_post_meta will derive value from the cache. The rest is a matter of technique – the data must be carefully arranged, not mixing anything up. All meta fields are added to the $post->meta array, and files into an $post->files array and files are immediately sorted by number order (when downloading it, you can specify the sort order).<br />
In addition, for each file, if it is an image, the full path to the thumbnails is calculated: small (thumbnail), average (medium) and the complete picture (full).</p>
<h4>WordPres 4:</h4>
<p>The default filter is only connected to the main query using is_main_query().<br />
Does not work in is_admin() or is_page().</p>
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<h3>A brief Markdown Example</h3>
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All Inclusive

The pluginplug-in, with two additional SQL queries, joins the original data sample $wp_query->posts all meta fields, all files and images.

Samuel Aguilera

<p><strong>NOTE: This plugin functionality is guaranteed by more than 10,000 active installs. But before installing this plugin bear in mind that its only purpose is to ADD the feature image ID to your post (in the same way that you would do using WP editor), it does not remove ANYTHING after deactivation.<br />
Before asking for support please read <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-read-before-posting-4" rel="ugc">this support thread</a></strong></p>
<h4>How it works?</h4>
<p>Checks if the post (any post type with thumbnail support, including pages) has already a featured image associated, and if not sets it using one of the following methods:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Dynamically, for old published posts, the featured images are set only when needed to show them in the frontend. This means that the featured image is set (only first time) when a visitor loads the page where it needs to be shown.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For new content, the featured image is set in the publishing process.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>No options page to setup</strong>, simply install and activate.</p>
<p>If you want to exclude certain post type (e.g. pages), you can do it by using a filter. See <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> for more details.</p>
<p><strong>Easy Add Thumbnail doesn’t add any plugin data</strong> to your WordPress database. It simply adds the _thumbnail_id meta key with the ID of the attachment to be used as feature image (just the same that WordPress does when you set it manually).</p>
<p>Therefore it requires to have attached/uploaded at least one image to the post. If there’s not any image attached to the post, this plugin can’t help you.</p>
<p>Easy Add Thumbnail has not any control over how/when/where your featured image is displayed in your site, <strong>the display of the featured image in your site is TOTALLY controlled by your theme</strong>, this includes size, position, display it or not…</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.7 or higher.</li>
<li>PHP 5.6 or higher.</li>
</ul>


Easy Add Thumbnail

Automatically sets the featured image to the first image uploaded into the post (any post type with thumbnail support). So easy like that...

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