Full Width Feature Image blog post

Quick update here. I dug into loop-index.php to pull the feature image outside of the container and then managed to crop and style it how I wanted using CSS.

However, I was hoping to use both normal images as av_gallery shortcodes in my posts. These galleries are normally a one-row gallery with 3 or 4 images in it. Whenever I use these, my feature image seems to get replaced by the first gallery in the post (and thus the gallery also gets moved away from its original location in the post, to the top). Is there any way to stop this behaviour, and just leave the galleries where they are supposed to be, and always show the feature image? If needed I’ll dig into some php again.

At this time I’m just trying everything out in my dev environments, once I move this to production I’d like to do it in a clean way. If I understand correctly, the best way to do all these changes is install a child theme and implement my changes there, right?

Hi Eliott,

I’d prefer not to go through the advanced layout builder route, as I feel it would be a lot more work to style each blog post that way, then editing the default layout to act how I want in a repeatable way.

Now for an example, see the private content for two posts. In one of the posts I have editted the shortcode of my previous theme to the av_gallery shortcodes. You can see that the first av_gallery is not kept in the position I put it in the post, but is moved up to replace the Feature image at the top of the post (so the feature image is not shown anymore). The other post still has the broken shortcodes of my previous theme, but shows the feature image exactly how I would like it.

Hi Elliott,

Good to know, but I’d like to achieve the exact opposite. I always want the featured image to appear on the single post, and not a gallery or similar. So in the last set of links, the “Australia Roadtrip – Victoria” is how I want it to act, the “Australia Roadtrip – Victoria to New-South Wales” is the unwanted behavior.

Hi Andy,

All my plugins are disabled and the problem still occurs.
The feature image only disappears/is replaced if I use the av_gallery shortcode in my post, so this is not something I can test with the standard WordPress theme.
To me it seems like Enfold behaviour that when one or multiple av_gallery shortcodes are used within the post body, the first one is taken and moved to the position where the feature image normally is, replacing that feature image.
This is behaviour which I want to prevent as it doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere and was hoping to get support for..

Hi Andy!

That’s both good and bad news. Good to hear it seems it’s not normal behaviour, bad because I need to figure out why my install is doing so :)
Feel free to disable all my plugins, but if I’m not mistaken I already did that myself and left them all disabled.
I admit I’m not on the latest enfold/wordpress version as there’s something wrong with the folder permissions of my ec2 instance causing the auto update to fail. I haven’t spent too much time trying to fix that, as I was hoping to discard the instance as soon as I fixed this problem. Guess fixing those permissions is now part of fixing this problem :) One question I have: can I enter the API key from ThemeForest for the Enfold auto update on both my production and my dev environment (running on different hosts) without running into licensing issues?

I’ll update here as soon as I have enfold and WP running on the latest version!

Hi Andy,

Updating was easier than expected! So I’m running WP 4.4.1 and Enfold 3.4.7 now. I’m happy to see pagination is working again, but the feature image is still acting strange.
I moved my custom work up until now into a child theme while doing so. I did a quick switch back to the stock theme and removed my custom css there, but the behaviour still persists.

You mention you don’t see it on your local install, but you can replicate on my installation I assume? I see the same behaviour on the new test post you made, I can take screenshots if needed.

All my plugins are disabled but feel free to activate or disable them as you please. I need to clean up the list as a lot of them won’t be used anymore with Enfold, but that shouldn’t impact this behavior.

Hi Andy,

Just tried that, deleted the enfold directory and uploaded it again from a fresh copy of themeforest. No change sadly..

I can see if I can give you FTP access if you think it would help. I’m checking if I can do a temporary swap to Enfold on my production environment to see if it occurs there as well. If not, I’m going to stop worrying about it.

Edit: did a quick and dirty check on my production environment by copying my enfold and enfold-child directory over, disabling the plugins I knew would cause trouble and entering an av_gallery shortcode in a post. Same behaviour occurs…

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Hi Ismael!

Wow, that did indeed fix it. Can’t believe I didn’t notice something as simple as that… Many thanks!
This almost solves everything I needed. I have some questions on gallery behaviour, but I’ll open a new topic for that.

Regards,