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Auto setting the "the_post_thumbnail"

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  1. drewbaker
    Member

    Hey Guys,
    Does anyone know how to have the "the_post_thumbnail" set when a post is submitted via a form? I'm happy for it to just be the first image attached.

    Alex The Admin said it was possible in a pre-sale post here: http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/multiple-image-attachment

    Thanks for the help! Great plugin!

    PS: You guys should have some sort of user-edited code snippet repository along the lines of the wordpress CODEX for this kind of thing. Would save your admins a lot of work on the forums.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday May 10, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Alex Cancado
    Administrator

    EDIT (July 2011)

    PLEASE NOTE: This code is out of date and no longer works.

    Please see this post instead:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/fatal-error-when-using-the_post_thumbnail-code-snippet#post-30918

    I like your idea about having some sort of collaboration on these code snippets. Could work really well.

    Try the following code snippet to set your post thumbnails

    Ignore the code below

    add_filter("gform_post_submission", "set_post_thumbnail", 10, 2);
    function set_post_thumbnail($entry, $form){

    //Replace 4 with your actual form id
    if($form["id"] != 4)
    return;

    //getting first image associated with the post
    $post_id = $entry["post_id"];
    $attachments = get_posts(array('numberposts' => '1', 'post_parent' => $post_id, 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC'));
    if(sizeof($attachments) == 0)
    return; //no images attached to the post

    //setting first image as the thumbnail for this post
    update_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $attachments[0]->ID);

    }

    EDIT (July 2011)
    See this post for an updated solution:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/fatal-error-when-using-the_post_thumbnail-code-snippet#post-30918

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday May 11, 2010 | Permalink

  3. Gmorales
    Member

    Great! thank you so much, it works perfectly.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday November 14, 2010 | Permalink

  4. webrulon
    Member

    Hi, what file should the above code be added to?

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday January 25, 2011 | Permalink

  5. David Smith
    Member

    Hi webrulon, that should be added to your functions.php

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday January 25, 2011 | Permalink

  6. mor10
    Member

    Thanks Alex. This is exactly what I was looking for. It's a bit too well hidden though, especially considering how many people are asking for this particular function. Maybe make this thread a sticky in the forum so people find it easily?

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday February 8, 2011 | Permalink

  7. Brenda Egeland
    Member

    Thank you so much! Perfect for what I need.

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday February 12, 2011 | Permalink

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