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mwdelaney/acf-cover-media
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Easy, consistent cover media fields for WordPress and ACF Pro 5.

1.0(9y ago)3267MITPHPPHP >=5.3.2

Since Aug 5Pushed 9y agoCompare

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Advanced Custom Fields Cover Media
==================================

[](#advanced-custom-fields-cover-media)

NOTE: This plugin is very much a work in progress.

A WordPress plugin that provides Easy, consistent cover media fields for WordPress and ACF Pro 5.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

1. WordPress 4.5+
2. Advanced Custom Fields Pro 5

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This plugin requires a small change to your theme:

### Template Tag

[](#template-tag)

Add the following template tag wherever you want cover images to appear in your theme:

```

```

### Recommended CSS

[](#recommended-css)

In order for the cover image to look right, its immediate parent should have something like the following css:

```
height: 100vh;

```

### Layout Classes

[](#layout-classes)

Layout classes are added to the body tag and can be used to style the cover image in your theme's CSS

### Change where the Cover Image fields appear

[](#change-where-the-cover-image-fields-appear)

By cover images are enabled for Pages, to define which post types cover images should be available on, declare theme support:

```
 $landing_page_templates = array(
   array (
     array (
       'param' => 'post_type',
       'operator' => '==',
       'value' => 'page',
     ),
     array (
       'param' => 'page_template',
       'operator' => '!=',
       'value' => 'template-no-header-image.php',
     ),
   ),
 );
 add_theme_support( 'cover-image-location', $landing_page_templates );

```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3617d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2457670?v=4)[Michael W. Delaney](/maintainers/MWDelaney)[@MWDelaney](https://github.com/MWDelaney)

---

Top Contributors

[![MWDelaney](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2457670?v=4)](https://github.com/MWDelaney "MWDelaney (26 commits)")

---

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