Title: Custom thumbnail not working
Last modified: February 19, 2018

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# Custom thumbnail not working

 *  Resolved [inspirar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspirar/)
 * (@inspirar)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-thumbnail-not-working/)
 * Hi, the custom thumbnail isn’t working for me – please see my shortcode below:
 * [child_pages cols=”4″ hide_excerpt=”true” skin=”simple” list=”false” use_custom_thumbs
   =”/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/new-dma-featuredimage-640×390.png” hide_more=”true”
   link_titles=”true”]
 * many thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [caterhamcomputing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caterhamcomputing/)
 * (@caterhamcomputing)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-thumbnail-not-working/#post-9993170)
 * Hi … the `use_custom_thumbs` does not accept a link to an image. It needs to 
   be passed the name of a custom field which will hold the details of a custom 
   image … this allows a different image to be used for each page (other than the
   featured image).
 * You need to set the image to be displayed in the named custom field for the pages
   that you want it to be displayed on.
 * The following is taken from [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-child-pages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cc-child-pages/):
 * `[child_pages use_custom_thumbs="custom_cc_thumnail"]`
 * … will replace the standard thumbnail with one specified in the value of the 
   custom field `custom_cc_thumnail` (if it is set). The value of the `custom_cc_thumnail`
   custom field can either be set to the ID of the image attachment (using the [Advanced Custom Fields](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/)
   plugin can make this much easier to use) or to the full URL of the image.

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