Changing where the "Before Display" image gets rendered

First of all, am I the only who finds the documentation lacking? A step by step tutorial with screen shots showing how to configure the plugins and custom fields would be a huge time saver.

That said, I finally figured out through trial and error how to get the plugins working by utilizing custom fields, which means I now must train other publishers on the site about this new workflow.

Our previous workflow for most articles used the standard Joomla image handling under the "Images and Links" tab, with an Intro image and Full Article Image. I was under the impression that I could configure the plugins to automatically resize these images, which would require no change to our workflow.

QUESTION #1: is there a way to do this? I have the option for "Resize article images" set to "Yes" in the "Content - Econa" plugin.

QUESTION #2: If the answer to #1 is no, is there a way to modify the output of the "Before Display" option so that the image is placed at the same location as the standard Joomla "Full Article Image"? See these two links below, the first one is using the standard Joomla display, and the second one the Econa plugin. With the Econa plugin, the article image renders before he social media sharing buttons:

https://feminapt.com/blog/you-are-invited-to-becoming-unwound-a-conversation-about-female-sexual-health-and-pelvic-pain
https://feminapt.com/blog/chronic-constipation-the-basics

Note that the second set of buttons (round ones) use a custom module position named 'socialshare' that we have added to the content area of our template using this override:

<?php echo JHtml::_('content.prepare', '{loadposition socialshare}'); ?>
	<div itemprop="articleBody">

Looking forward to some answers to these questions!

Lefteris,

Thanks for the speedy reply.

So what do we do if #1 doesn't work? I saw another post about disabling the option to clear the tmp directory in Cache Cleaner Pro (which we use), but doing this didn't help. Do you have any other solutions? This is our preferred method.

Re #2, I have tried the various options under Automatic Display, and none of them do what we want. Neither did moving the suggested code around in the template override. I believe the 'beforeDisplayContent' code handles other content besides the custom field, so this would require more granular handling of the content ordering, yes?

Another issue with that is that if we find an override solution that works with the plugin, it will likely affect all of the existing articles that are using the standard Joomla image handling, meaning we would have to go back and re-edit those articles to work with this new override.

More issues with Custom Fields:

• If I choose "Do Not Automatically Display" under Options, it still displays as if I had chosen "Before Display".

• If I choose "Show Label > Yes" and "Show On > Administrator", it still shows on the front end.

Looking forward to your reply.

Vince

Thanks, that code worked and I didn't even have to change the ID as the article image was already #1. I did have to add this our CSS to make it match the other images:

.pull-left, .econaImage {
margin:12px 24px 12px 0;
float:left;
}

I will create a private ticket for the Article Image function. I did try reordering the plugin to last but with no effect.