Title: Adding Function Reference/get the post thumbnail to child's functions.php
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Adding Function Reference/get the post thumbnail to child's functions.php

 *  [abzu2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abzu2/)
 * (@abzu2)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-function-referenceget-the-post-thumbnail-to-childs-functionsphp/)
 * Am using Email subscribers plugin by Gopi Ramasamy which allows the tag ###POSTIMAGE###
   to be inserted to new post notifications. Investigating the failure of displaying
   the featured image from the post, my suspicion is the empty string in functions.
   php:
    add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ) information is from [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail)
 * according to Gopi:
    Size information is based on your default image setting in
   your WordPress dashboard. It use default wordpress method get_the_post_thumbnail()
   to load the images.
 * Would appreciate information as to where and the exact syntax to use in adding
   this string to my current functions.php which is as follows:
 * **<?php **
 * function elucidate_byline() {
    printf( __( ‘Posted by’, ‘elucidate’ ) . ‘ ‘ .‘
   <span class=”author vcard”>[%2$s](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-function-referenceget-the-post-thumbnail-to-childs-functionsphp/%1$s?output_format=md)
   </span>’, esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ), esc_html(
   get_the_author() ) ); }
 * Of possible interest to add the Post Image feature to Elucidate:
    [http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-2-9s-post-image-feature](http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/11/16/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wordpress-2-9s-post-image-feature)
 * TIA
    abzu2.com

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