Featured Post Images

Just like in Wordpress, it’s easy to add a Featured Image to display at the top of the page.

Unlike in Wordpress, you can also easily manage the height of the Featured Image at any of the TailwindCSS breakpoints.

💡 TIP: You could also use the “hero” Frontmatter settings, examples in the index.md file for all the options and features for a video, graphic, carousel, or split hero section.

How to manage Featured Post Images in this system

• Local Image
  • Create an image in your favorite image editor.
  • Generally it’s best if the image is landscape and not portrait orientation.
  • Place it wherever you like in the /src/assets/images/ directory or sub-directories.
  • Enter the path to the image relative to /src/assets/images/
    • For example, if the image file is “featured-image.jpg” and you placed it in /src/assets/images/2020/09/ then you’d enter 2020/09/featured-image.jpg in the images:feature: frontmatter.
• External Image
  • If you’d like to use an externally hosted image (like from Unsplash)
  • Enter the full URL in the images:feature: frontmatter.

Set Featured Image Height

Default image height is currently set to h-48 md-1/3 which is basic TailwindCSS except for that custom theme height at medium and above of md-1/3 which is set in /tailwind.config.js.

You can override this with any TailwindCSS height settings, plus the custom settings in /tailwind.config.js for any of TailwindCSS’s default breakpoints.

Set Featured Image Position

Lastly, you can set the image’s position within the container by using TailwindCCS’s Object Position.

Default is set to object-center but if your image’s focus area is off center, you can try object-left or object-right to see if that placement is better

For example, this page’s frontmatter currently looks like this:

# /src/posts/2020-09-06-featured-images.md
title: Featured Post Images
date: 2020-09-06T17:44:03.000Z
excerpt: Easily add featured images (heros) just like in Wordpress.
author: shane-robinson
seo:
  title:
  description:
  image: 2020/09/featured-image.jpg
images: # relative to /src/assets/images/
  feature: 2020/09/featured-image.jpg # https://source.unsplash.com/random/800x600
  thumb: 2020/09/featured-image.jpg
  align: object-left # object-center (default) - other options at https://tailwindcss.com/docs/object-position
  height: h-64 md:h-1/3 # optional. Default = h-48 md:h-1/3
tags:
  - featured-image
  - hero
  - frontmatter
  - tailwindcss