In no uncertain terms, the featured image in WordPress is one of the most important aspects of any post, which makes selecting the proper size essential for success. It is often the first thing a visitor will see when searching for a topic. If the image looks bad, it will have a direct...
If the default featured image size that’s set in your theme works for your purposes, great. If not, it’s possible to change the size with a little code editing. Why would you want to change the featured image size? Apart from making thumbnail galleries bigger or smaller, you may want...
Learn how to change the cropping area of featured images in WordPress with Crop Thumbnails plugin. Easily customize how your thumbnails are cropped.
The featured image is a popular feature supported by almost allWordPress themes. In rare situations, you may come across a theme that does not support featured images, or you may not like how they handle feature images. In that case, you can add featured image support to your theme or ch...
For more details, see our tutorial on how to set a default featured image in WordPress. Once you are done, don’t forget to click the ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’ button at the top to store your settings. We hope this article helped you learn how to require a featured image for posts ...
Having issues with the WordPress Visual Editor not working? In WordPress 5.0, WordPress changed the default editor from the WordPress Visual Editor, a semi-WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) content editor, to the new WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg). However, you still have the option...
Adding a Featured Image to a Post in WordPress Now quickly, before we dive into this tutorial on adding images to WordPress, I’ll show you how to reduce an image’s file size (helping your posts load faster) in 2 easy steps.
A quick snippet to dynamically add a featured image to a WordPress post from a distant URL, so even if your images are on another server you can use them.
Most of the previous techniques will help you with new image files that you are still about to upload. But what if you have hundreds if not thousands of files already uploaded to your WordPress site? Don’t worry; you can still optimize those images and change their sizes. ...
How to Get the Featured Image in WordPress Let's say a theme has added support for the featured image functionality. In this case, you can use theget_the_post_thumbnail()function to retrieve the featured image of a specified post. This function will return the post thumbnail image tag. It...