Get the first image from the wordpress post and display it

By Alexander Tuesday July 21, 2009

An easy function to get the first image from a post.

The Code

<?php
function get_first_image() {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = '';
ob_start();
ob_end_clean();
$output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
if(empty($first_img)){ //Defines a default image
$first_img = “/images/default.jpg”;
}
return $first_img;
}
?>

<?php
echo get_first_image();
?>

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Tags: image, wordpress

2 Comments

Toure on Tuesday 21, 2009

Hello, thanks for the code.
However, I have used your code without success. It’s outputting the url of the image instead of the picture itself.
Alexander on Tuesday 21, 2009

put the url in an image tag