Title: Using ‘featured image’ functionality for custom meta boxes?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using ‘featured image’ functionality for custom meta boxes?

 *  [JsonB123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsonb123/)
 * (@jsonb123)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image-functionality-for-custom-meta-boxes/)
 * I want to harness the power of the ‘featured image’ functionality for WordPress
   by having a few link buttons in a custom meta box and allowing users to add a
   few images inside that metabox to go along with their posts.
 * I tried using another method of doing this (by calling the thickbox for image
   upload that is used on the Post Edit box) but it didn’t work for me. Is there
   an easy way to add more of these ‘featured images’ to a post for use in other
   ways?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [JsonB123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsonb123/)
 * (@jsonb123)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image-functionality-for-custom-meta-boxes/#post-1545861)
 * UPDATE: I did find this plug-in: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-post-thumbnails/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-post-thumbnails/)
   which mostly does what I want…the only thing missing is being able to add all
   of the featured image links into one meta box; but I suppose that can be customized
   if needed from this plug-in.
 *  [oneofayykind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oneofayykind/)
 * (@oneofayykind)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image-functionality-for-custom-meta-boxes/#post-1546105)
 * How did you get this plugin to work? I have WordPress 3.0 and I can’t get this
   plugin to work. When I go to add a new post or if I go to add a new custom post
   type this option does not show up for me. According to the screenshots you should
   see the ability to add more than one featured image on the right side no? I downloaded
   the plugin, uploaded it, and installed it and still got nothing. No support from
   the plugin provider either.

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