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How to restore missing WordPress Featured Image Screen Option

26 April 2017 / Alec Kinnear / 4 Comments

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 Ever had your Featured Image Admin Option go missing in WordPress? This very useful cute little box:

wordpress-featured-image-box-admin

The Featured Images check box is not in Screen Options either:

wordpress-featured-image-box-screen-options

The issue is not:

  • in Settings, Media
  • in Appearance
  • in the Customizer
  • in wp-config

Here's how you restore the missing Featured Image box. Open up your theme functions.php file.

Just drop this bit of code in there:

// Add theme support for Featured Images
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array(
'post',
'page',
'custom-post-type-name',
));

All is well again. Reload your admin screen and featured images are back. It's very easy to doublecheck for this issue. You can enable any of the recent default themes like Twenty Fifteen to make sure the Featured Image box shows up when editing posts. If not, then the issue might be elsewhere.

Alec Kinnear

Alec Kinnear

Alec has been helping businesses succeed online since 2000. Alec is an SEM expert with a background in advertising, as a former Head of Television for Grey Moscow and Senior Television Producer for Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia.

Categories: WordPress Tags: images, WordPress

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  1. Sheldon 24 September 2017 at 9:10 pm

    Opened the functions.php file on FileZilla using Notepad and pasted the code but couldn’t get the Featured Image to work

    Reply
  2. Yannick T. 7 March 2018 at 8:20 pm

    I stumbled upon this nice little WP extension (WP BFI (“Better Featured Image”)) that allows you to manage your featured images directly from any posts/pages list screen, making this repetitive task easier and quickier : wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bfi-better-featured-image/

    Reply
  3. Morgan 16 April 2018 at 11:42 am

    Not working

    Reply
  4. Alec KinnearAlec Kinnear 18 April 2018 at 4:40 am

    Have you tried the extension above Morgan? I’m not using BFI but consider it every now and then. I think I’d install BFI to fix my images and then disable it. I have a site now on which that would be handy.

    Reply

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