Title: Featured Image
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Featured Image

 *  Resolved [knucklebasher109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knucklebasher109/)
 * (@knucklebasher109)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-19/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to use a featured image on a page.
    I click the featured image link
   on the lower right side of admin/new page. select an image, and it shows up in
   the box, but not when I preview the page.
 * Any help?
 * Thnx,
 * Bill

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 *  [deepbevel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepbevel/)
 * (@deepbevel)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-19/#post-2581815)
 * Your theme may not have >
 *     ```
       <?php the_post_thumbnail();?>
       ```
   
 * in it’s output code, or possibly may not have the function for it.
    You can try
   to add the above tag to your output and see..
 * [the_post_thumbnail](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail)
 *  Thread Starter [knucklebasher109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knucklebasher109/)
 * (@knucklebasher109)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-19/#post-2581820)
 * HI deepbevel and thank you
    Obviously you have a deeper understanding than I 
   Where would I “add the tag to my output”
 * Bill
 *  [deepbevel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepbevel/)
 * (@deepbevel)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-19/#post-2581822)
 * you’ll proabably want it in your main posts page (loop.php or index.php) and 
   category.php/archive.php, depending on your theme. Maybe single post too, unless
   you plan to embed full size images for your posts.
 * whereever you use it, it normally goes after the title but before the content:
 * the code for your content will look something like this:
 *     ```
       <div class="entry-content">
       				<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?>
       				<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
       			</div><!-- .entry-content -->
       ```
   
 * So you need to find that and put the tag above it.
 *  Thread Starter [knucklebasher109](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knucklebasher109/)
 * (@knucklebasher109)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-19/#post-2581825)
 * Thank You
 *  [deepbevel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepbevel/)
 * (@deepbevel)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-19/#post-2581828)
 * oops,
 * you’ll also want it above “the_excerpt” if you are using excerpts. the code will
   look like that for the_content, but it will say “the_excerpt” instead. So place
   the tag above just the same.
 * it may be that your theme aready has the tag and something else is wrong, let’s
   hope not..:)

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