FAQ

Why wouldn’t I want to display featured images on the page that features them?

You probably do want to display them somewhere in the post. You just might not always like the way your theme does it. If using this plugin, add the same image twice in your post — once as the featured image, and again somewhere in the content. There, you can use the position, size, wrapping, caption, and cropping you prefer.

Will this affect opengraph or other metadata?

No. Facebook or whoever will still find your featured image.

I’m mostly okay with where the featured image displays. There are just a few pages where I want to do something different.

This is not the right plugin for that situation. Instead, use Conditionally display featured image on singular pages and posts.

Why do I need a plugin for this? I can just write a custom CSS rule

This is true — you can probably hide the featured image yourself using the “additional CSS” feature of your theme, if you know how. The drawbacks to this technique are, first, the featured image is then still part of the HTML and browsers might request it from your server, which is a waste of bandwidth, and second, that the theme still thinks there’s a featured image, and may make space for it on the screen or otherwise change the styling or placement of other entities to account for its presence. So the CSS rule might not work. Be sure to test it using the emulation mode of your browser to see whether it works on a variety of devices.

It doesn’t work on my site! The image is still visible.

Some themes do things in what I will call “the wrong” order, such that no plugin can affect the inclusion of featured images in the HTML because none of the plugin’s code has yet been activated when the theme retrieves this information. There’s nothing I can do about that in my code, so I’d appreciate you reporting this as a bug to the theme developers. Any other plugin that does something similar will also be affected.

As a second line of defense, this plugin uses a CSS stylesheet to set to “display: none” some style classes commonly associated with featured images. You can emulate this solution by using custom CSS (as described in the previous section). Nearly all themes have a place to insert custom CSS in the Customize screen. Use the browser’s developer mode to see how the part you want to hide is styled and to test your new rule. This is not an ideal solution but it does give you the desired appearance, usually.

If you solve the problem with custom CSS, this plugin isn’t helping you and you might as well remove it. Please drop me a line with the theme name (and the CSS rule you ended up using, if you’re willing).