Title: Blocking Featured Image
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Blocking Featured Image

 *  [italicsbold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/italicsbold/)
 * (@italicsbold)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-featured-image/)
 * Since upgrading to WordPress 4.0.1 this plugin disables the Featured Image. I
   also tried this on a completely new install of wordpress with no other plugins
   and using the 2014 theme and no luck. As soon as the plugin is activated, the
   Featured Image is no longer available in posts and pages in the backed.
 * But if a featured image has already been uploaded, it will still show on the 
   front end.
 * Any chance there is a fix for this? I’m at the tail end of a site that uses this
   great plugin.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-aggregator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-aggregator/)

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 *  [garrettblakeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garrettblakeman/)
 * (@garrettblakeman)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-featured-image/#post-5562596)
 * I’m really late on this but it’s line 94 of im-social-aggregator.php that causes
   this issue
 * `add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array($this->post_type));`
 * I removed it and it seems to be fix this problem but I’ll need to look into it
   more, a lot of this plugin needs quite an overhaul.
 *  [Daniel Koskinen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniel-koskinen/)
 * (@daniel-koskinen)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-featured-image/#post-5562601)
 * This should certainly be fixed by the plugin author, because the plugin is overriding
   the theme setting, but an alternative to modifying the plugin code is to override
   it again in your theme functions.php by setting a higher priority, eg. like this:
 *     ```
       function my_social_media_aggregator_fix() {
   
       	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
   
       }
       add_action( 'init', 'my_social_media_aggregator_fix', 99 );
       ```
   
 *  [Katherine White](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katwhite/)
 * (@katwhite)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-featured-image/#post-5562624)
 * I resolved this by adding a conditional to ensure the theme doesn’t already support
   this feature. I may do the theme override to avoid having to modify plugin code,
   but this is another alternative fix that may help someone.
 *     ```
       if ( !current_theme_supports( 'post-thumbnails') ) {
           add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array($this->post_type));
       }
       ```
   
 * I’d love to see the plugin updated to address this — I’m very excited about the
   potential.

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 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Katherine White](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katwhite/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-featured-image/#post-5562624)
 * Status: not resolved