How to use a local "featured" image in post pages

[darkins]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for this awesome template. I have just started to play around with it and i really like how easy and customizable it is to use.
I am having the following issues though:

1. would like to change the featured images in my posts to my own local images.

Change:
featured: "https://placeimg.com/640/480/tech"

To:
featured: "images/my-image.jpg"

My path dir to the images is: src/posts/images

I have also tried placing them here: src/assets/images
and doing this:
featured: "/images/my-image.jpg"

I think perhaps my problem my be related to my second issue, which is...

2. How do i successfully run a build?

When i run:

npm run build

I get an error in the terminal saying it doesn't recognise the 'rm' or 'true', so it cannot remove and replace the _site dir.

'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'true' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I would appreciate your help and guidance.

Thanks again for the amazing work you've put into this template!
regards
Declan

[GrimLink]

@darkins, Thank you.

Now for your first point;

would like to change the featured images in my posts to my own local images.

According to the 11ty image plugin documentation, the image path must match the entire path.

So use ./src/images/my-image.jpg.

For the second point;

How do i successfully run a build?

I'm guessing you're running Windows.

The rm command is a UNIX (MacOS, Linux) command that removes the contents of your build folder,
before 11ty will build your site.

It does not work on Windows.

I do intend to replace with for a more cross-platform solution, later.

However, for the time being, replace the rm -r _site/ || true command with a Windows solution;

# CMD
rmdir /s /q _site

# PowerShell
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force _site

I hope this helps 😉

[darkins]

Thanks, this did help and yes, i am indeed on windows.
It would be very nice if it was more cross-platform, as there are a few other issues with the dev process and running cmds.
There is no way to terminate Ctrl + C on windows and most of the time it doesn't run, when doing npm start - it just hangs after rollup / watching for changes.. and doesn't build a localhost instance.

The template is great though, keep up the good work! 👍