Title: Featured Image
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Featured Image

 *  Resolved [arose8199](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arose8199/)
 * (@arose8199)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/)
 * I was wondering if the featured image does anything on a page…or just posts? 
   Does it have to be a specific size?

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/#post-5451995)
 * In terms of featured-image size, you’ll find the specs on this page:
 * [http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/adaption/](http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/adaption/)
 * > The main column width is 680px.
   >  The columns are 20%
 * Since the optional right sidebar has a flexible width – meaning that it gets 
   wider on larger screens – there isn’t a specific requirement for featured image
   widths. If you do use the sidebar on your site, your featured images can be 680px
   and will take up the entire width of the main column.
 * If you don’t use the sidebar, you can try making your featured image wider to
   make sure it fills the area completely at most screen sizes.
 * > I was wondering if the featured image does anything on a page…or just posts?
 * Featured images are displayed on single posts and the blog index, for posts with
   the standard post format.
 *  Thread Starter [arose8199](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arose8199/)
 * (@arose8199)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/#post-5452018)
 * Thanks, that answered my question.
 *  Thread Starter [arose8199](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arose8199/)
 * (@arose8199)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/#post-5452032)
 * Is there a simple way to add the featured image feature to the pages as well?
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/#post-5452062)
 * Sure, you could do that with a child theme, in the content-page.php file.
 * The Codex has some examples of how to add featured images, output via the the_post_thumbnail
   function in WordPress theme files:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail#Examples](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail#Examples)
 * Where you put the code in your file depends where you want the image displayed
   on the page.
 * Let me know how it goes!
 *  Thread Starter [arose8199](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arose8199/)
 * (@arose8199)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/#post-5452108)
 * I got it to work. It was super simple.
    I just put the following code right after
   the info about the template before any of the other code:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
       	the_post_thumbnail( 'featured-image' );
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * It seemed to work perfectly. I now can select a featured image on any of my pages.
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-189/#post-5452111)
 * Super! Glad you got it working.

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