Title: PLEASE HELP MEH
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PLEASE HELP MEH

 *  [snowcloud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowcloud/)
 * (@snowcloud)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-meh/)
 * I have been looking through the forums tryn to figure out how to get the “add
   Thumbnail” option to show up in the Post Edit Screen. What I have found is that
   you have to add a certain line of code to your themes functions.php file in order
   for it to even show up. Well oddly enough the theme I am using already has that
   line of code inside the function.php. It looks like this:
 * <?php if ( function_exists(“add_theme_support”) ) { add_theme_support(“post-thumbnails”);}?
   >
 * And this is the theme I am using:
 * [http://newwpthemes.com/wordpress-theme/contrive/](http://newwpthemes.com/wordpress-theme/contrive/)
 * However the line of code that the WordPress Codex tells you to add looks a little
   different:
 * <?php if ( function_exists( ‘add_theme_support’ ) ) {
    add_theme_support( ‘post-
   thumbnails’ ); } ?>
 * I have tried using both of these codes and they both don’t work. Do you need 
   to place them in a certain position inside the functions.php? And yes I have 
   tried using featured image already and that doesn’t work. This theme allows for
   a featured posts slideshow on the homepage and in order to get a picture to show
   up on that slide show it has to be a thumbnail.
 * Here is exactlty what the theme options says about the image on the slide show:
 * How to add images to your featured posts slideshow?
    » If you are using WordPress
   version 2.9 and above: Just set “Post Thumbnail” when adding new post for the
   posts in selected category above. » If you are using WordPress version under 
   2.9 you have to add custom fields in each post on the category you set as featured
   category. The custom field should be named “featured” and it’s value should be
   full image URL. Click here for a screenshot.
 * In both situation, the image sizes should be: Width: 610 px. Height: 320 px.
 * Please help if you guys could. I really do not know much about php.

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-meh/#post-2315953)
 * I wonder if the ‘Featured Image’ checkbox is not checked on your Add/Edit panel.
 * Edit a post and click ‘Screen Options’ at the top right. Make sure the ‘Featured
   Image’ checkbox is checked.

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