Title: Featured Image won't work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Featured Image won't work

 *  [svaldesm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svaldesm/)
 * (@svaldesm)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-wont-work/)
 * Hey everybody,
 * I have strange problems using this function of WP.
    I don’t have troubles activating
   it, it is working and I can use it. I first upload a picture to the post and 
   put it. That’s ok. I have set up a default thumbnail size of 260×60, which are
   automatically created. Every time I upload a photo, the thumbnail size appears
   correctly, in fact I can add it to the post and the size is correct.
 * The weird thing is that when I click on “Set feature Image”, pick the “thumbnail
   size” and click on “add as feature image”, it won’t add the thumbnail size but
   the full size.
    The only solution is to manually crop it with the WP editor, 
   BUT this is also weird because the default image to edit is a strange size, it’s
   never the one that I selected, so when I resize and then crop, what I though 
   I had selected was something totally different, and sometimes even a black space(
   which means I was cropping “outside” the picture).
 * Any help would be really appreciated, thanks!

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 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-wont-work/#post-1952000)
 * The feature is behaving as intended. Selecting a “featured image” doesn’t select
   an image _size_, but rather the _image itself_.
 * The call to `the_post_thumbnail( $size )` in your Theme template files determines
   which _size_ of the image is output.
 *  Thread Starter [svaldesm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svaldesm/)
 * (@svaldesm)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-wont-work/#post-1952059)
 * OK I get it, in fact it is working now.
    The thing is, what if I want to change
   the piece of image that the thumbnail is showing? The only way to do it is manually
   I think, right?
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-wont-work/#post-1952070)
 * > The thing is, what if I want to change the piece of image that the thumbnail
   > is showing? The only way to do it is manually I think, right?
 * I believe so, yes.

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 * [crop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crop/)
 * [featured](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/featured/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [post thumbnail size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-thumbnail-size/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-wont-work/#post-1952070)
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