Blog Happens: Free Wordpress Theme

The Wordpress theme I use with this blog is Blog Happens, created by Chris Happens (aka iMenn). It requires Get-the-image plugin to make the theme work perfectly. For easy installation, iMenn included this plugin into the same package (zip file) with the theme, so there’s no need to download the plugin separately.

Get-the-image plugin included in Blog Happens theme package is version 0.2 which work perfectly with the theme. But, Now this plugin is updated to version 0.3.2. I (and my friend, @ohm4u) updated it and encounter a big bug.

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Normally, Get-the-image plugin takes image in the post and make it as thumbnail in index page. For the post which has no image, the plugin uses default image as thumbnail. After I updated the plugin to v0.3.2, there’s no thumbnail showing for the post which has no image. This bug annoy ohm4u and he decides to fix it.

Here is how he fix it. I’ve applied this method with this blog already. It works!

in the file “index.php” of Blog Happens theme, Line 11 is showing like this.

<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php if(function_exists(‘get_the_image’)) {echo get_the_image(array(‘Thumbnail’,'My Thumbnail’),’thumbnail’,get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’).’/images/thumb.jpg’);} ?></a>

Replace Line11 with this code

<a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php if ( function_exists( ‘get_the_image’ ) ) { get_the_image(array( ‘custom_key’ => array( ‘Thumbnail’, ‘thumbnail’ ),’default_image’ => get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’).’/images/thumb.jpg’ )); } ?></a>

If you use “page-blog” page template, do the same thing in “page-blog.php” Line 23.

Thanks @ohm4u for this helpful solution.

Blog Happens theme : http://www.chrishappens.com/sharing/bloghappens/
Chris Happens : http://www.chrishappens.com/
iMenn : http://www.imenn.com/
Get-the-image plugin : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/get-the-image/
Ohm4u on Twitter : http://twitter.com/ohm4u
Ohm4u as Sonarboy : http://www.sonarboy.com/