Adding A Featured Image To A Page In Genesis

May 6, 2013 / Dave Fogel /

After looking around the web for a good tutorial, I really couldn’t find what that accomplished what I was looking to do.

It sounds simple. I want to add a featured image to a page in Genesis. No problem right? Not exactly. Genesis doesn’t work like a normal wordpress site, but then if you are reading this post, you probably already know that.

So after reading a bunch of complicated tutorials that didn’t work, I stumbled on one that wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but gave me a new direction to try.

So we need to add this to our functions.php file. Always make a back up first.

So Here it is:
First we have to create the image size we want. In my case I wanted one that was 960px wide and 150px high.

add_image_size( 'featured-single', 960, 150, TRUE );

The TRUE means it can be cropped.

Next we have to add the following code:
add_filter ( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'your_custom_header' );


function your_custom_header () {

echo '
';

echo the_post_thumbnail( 'featured-single' );

echo '
';

}

So we are using a filter to display our new “featured-single” in a function called your_custom_header.

You can put it wherever you want. The visual hook guide is very helpful.

In my case I put I wanted to put it before the content, but you can put it wherever you want.

Very simple. It took a lot of searching to find this, but I am happy now that it works.

Setting up Rel Author

By Dave Fogel | May 30, 2013

We might be a little late on this one, but it is worth setting up your rel author tags on Google plus. Google is very much looking at this type of information for rankings now, so it makes sense to get it done. There are several places to learn how to do this. Here is…