Where did the "Set Featured Image" button go?

  • Resolved dgodot

    (@dgodot)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    I must be looking right past it somehow…

    Can someone please tell me where the button to add a featured image to a post disappear to on the Edit Post page?

    I just upgraded from 4.0.1 to 4.1 and can’t seem to find it anywhere.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 3 months ago

    It’s still there, as long as you’re using a theme that supports it, though it may have been hidden.

    When writing/editing a post/page, hit the “Screen Options” tab near the top-right and make sure that “Featured Image” is checked.

    The Featured Image box should appear at the bottom of the right sidebar when writing/editing a post/page.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails#Setting_a_Post_Thumbnail

    Thread Starter dgodot

    (@dgodot)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Aha! The key phrase there was “as long as you’re using a theme that supports it.”

    It looks like the previous version of WordPress didn’t enforce the need to call add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ) in the theme.

    Adding this to my functions.php fixed the problem! Thanks, James!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 3 months ago

    You’re welcome!

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