Problem with featured image support and Portfolio template

First, before I get into my problem, may I respectfully suggest that [the forum administrator] add the “create new topic” module to the FIRST page of Forum threads (or better still, every page), or some sort of link or shortcut to it. I’ve spent well over an hour (going on two) just trying to find where to post a new thread….this is the very first (of a great many) support forums I’ve been to that buries it on the very last page of threads, where it’s very hard to find.

That said, here’s what I need help with.

I needed to add featured image support (full width) to all single posts and pages, and did that successfully by adding the following code snippet to my (Epik) theme’s functions.php file:

add_action( 'genesis_before_entry', 'featured_post_image', 8 );
function featured_post_image() {
  is_singular(array( 'post', 'page' ));
	the_post_thumbnail('full');
}
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This works great EXCEPT that it creates a new problem with a Portfolio template page I created by modifying and renaming the one that comes with Epik (I like the stock one, but need to have some parent pages work the same way, displaying a “Portfolio-style” list of child pages). The modified Portolio template page works (I just changed the “loop” portion to use my own $args to find all child pages of the (parent) page being displayed).

BUT on that page, the full width featured image is being displayed before each list item (child page)….the child pages themselves display nicely with the featured image as a thumbnail followed by the excerpt and read more….it all looks great except that in between each one is the full-width featured image, and because it takes up the full width each child page is listed by itself in the row, then it shows the next full width image followed by the child page info, etc.

SO I thought “well I’ll just modify the code to NOT refer to pages (using is_singular(‘post’) instead of the array) and then add in code on the page.php template to display it there. In theory, then any page that uses page.php should display the featured image and any page that doesn’t use page.php but rather uses my new page-mycustomtemplate.php (same as page-portfolio.php with my custom loop in place of the portfolio loop) will NOT display the featured image (full width) but rather will use what is in the modified version of the portfolio template.

BUT that isn’t what happens.

Apparently Genesis, like WordPress, considers ALL content to be “posts” so it adds the featured image (full width) to ALL pages. Ok I can live with that as long as it isn’t in the Portfolio LOOP – I want the image at the top of the Parent Page (and it is) but I don’t want each child page’s featured image to show full width before each child page in the list items. EDITED: Actually it is NOT showing the Parent Page’s featured image, I just thought it was because it’s the same image as the first Child Page…so my problem is in the Portfolio Page template….I need to be able to assign a (similar) template to Parent Pages for which I want Child pages displayed the same way as the Portfolio Page, with the Parent Page also showing it’s featured image full width. I hope this makes sense.

In the customizations I made to the duplicated page-portfolio.php template I ONLY changed the $args to this:

 $args = array( 
	  'post_type' => 'page',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1,
	  'post_parent' => 13,
	  'orderby' => 'title',
	  'order' => 'ASC'
	  );
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And I removed the reference to $cf since I’m not using custom fields to declare a category.

Can someone please help with this?

Here’s a link to the Page that I’m having trouble with…..understand that if I figure it out, it may look fine 🙂 But if I do I’ll post back what I did to solve it.

http://www.sunsettravel.com/free-tools/