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1. ch8rt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   How do I go about using featured images with pages rather than posts? Is it even possible?

   I've already been using them with posts, but can't figure out how to use them on pages as well.

2. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Take a look through all the 'images' plugins in the WP repository. Many of them allow you to put images wherever you wish.

3. Milan Golubović
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Got exactly same problem.
   WP docs say that thumbnails can be enabled for post and/or for pages(!):

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_theme_support#Post_Thumbnails

   But only there. On all other places only posts are mentioned ?!?

   Also, when I enable thumbnails for pages I can select one for every page.
   It works well in admin part. But in template I can't picture I uploaded with the_post_thumbnail() ?!?
   Also for that function docs says that it must be inside loop?!? Why if I'm using thumbnail attached to page, not to post.

   I'm new to WP, but constantly I'm finding some illogical docs, examples...

   Please, help, advice.

4. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   pages and posts use loops....

   add theme support for post thumbnail makes it work so you can upload the thumbnail

   but each template you want thumbnails displayed on must call the_post_thumbnail to display the images

   page.php for pages
   index.php for index/blog list view
   single.php for single post view
   etc...

5. Milan Golubović
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks RVoodoo for your reply,

   Yes, I added theme support and I can upload thumbnail for every page. That works fine.

   But "the_post_thumbnail()" is not outputting anything?
   I'm just putting that function call in header template (because every page have some picture) at place where I want page photo to appears - is that enough?
   Do I have to put it inside of some kind of loop? I mean I'm showing one page in a time and I got one thumbnail for a page, so I don't understand what can I loop here?

6. supervee
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the_post_thumbnail() has to go inside the loop of the page you want it to appear, not in header.php (because it is not a post)

7. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the loop still exists in page.php

   It starts at if have posts while have posts line,

   and ends at the endwhile endif

   so your the_post_thumbnail code goes in between there

   If you want to display thumbnails in the header, you will need to figure out a way to call them.... probably using a little mini loop
   http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

8. Primoz Frelih
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi, find and add this to your "add_theme_support" function in functions.php:

   add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post', 'page' ) );

   It's also useful for the custom type posts, just add them to the array.

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