Title: Theme thumbnail vs. reality
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Theme thumbnail vs. reality

 *  [peteabides](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteabides/)
 * (@peteabides)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-thumbnail-vs-reality/)
 * The thumbnail for this theme has that nice waterside town photo, but it’s just
   impossible to add an image in that photo’s place without hacking up the theme
   code. For a minute, I thought it was a widget area and I needed a slideshow plugin,
   but even that’s not the case– there’s only the sidebar widget area. What can 
   I do to add an image in that place? I must be missing something, otherwise it
   wouldn’t be in the thumbnail, right?

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 *  [Dumitru Brinzan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilovewpcom/)
 * (@ilovewpcom)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-thumbnail-vs-reality/#post-8558842)
 * As per screenshot.png, you probably need to:
    1. Go to Settings > Reading and
   set your homepage to display a static page. 2. Upload some photos to that static
   page.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-thumbnail-vs-reality/#post-8558842)
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