{"id":963078,"date":"2015-05-15T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T01:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/use-author-image-as-featured-image\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T08:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:36:32","slug":"use-author-image-as-featured-image","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/use-author-image-as-featured-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Author Image as Featured Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Usually I can see a featured image in my calendar for each event, however, sometimes users do not upload featured images. In such a scenario, I would like to show the event&#8217;s author&#8217;s image as a featured image. I&#8217;m currently using the Divi theme (Version: 2.3.1.).<\/p>\n<p>I found a file by the name (epanel\/custom_functions.php) which has the following code:<\/p>\n<p>\/*this function allows users to use the first image in their post as their thumbnail*\/<br \/>\nif ( ! function_exists( &#8216;et_first_image&#8217; ) ){<br \/>\n\tfunction et_first_image() {<br \/>\n\t\tglobal $post;<br \/>\n\t\t$img = &#8221;;<br \/>\n\t\t$output = preg_match_all(&#8216;\/&lt;img.+src=[\\'&#8221;]([^\\'&#8221;]+)[\\'&#8221;].*&gt;\/i&#8217;, $post-&gt;post_content, $matches);<br \/>\n\t\tif ( isset($matches[1][0]) ) $img = $matches[1][0];<\/p>\n<p>\t\treturn trim($img);<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to mention IF no first image, then show author&#8217;s image?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-963078","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Use Author Image as Featured Image -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/use-author-image-as-featured-image\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Use Author Image as Featured Image -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, Usually I can see a featured image in my calendar for each event, however, sometimes users do not upload featured images. 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