Display WordPress Featured Image
The WordPress Featured Image is a great tool where ones pages and posts can be easily illustrated with a pre-configured display of any selected image that has been uploaded to the WordPress Media Library. As a WordPress theme developer, I often have to find new ways to display the featured image, or in the case of editing somebody else s WordPress theme, I may find myself using the feature image function in combination with other display tools, such as timthumb.php or ??? My preferred method is to grab the url of the featured image, then use that to construct what will be needed given the...
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How to Use Featured Images If your theme isn’t compatible with featured images, you need to first set it up. You can Google “WordPress Featured Image Theme Setup” and find plenty of resources, or call Flash Buddy and have him do it for you. Make a note of the particular size you need. Yes, you can have more than one size featured image. If your forging ahead with a compatible WordPress theme (all mine are), and if you are using WordPress 3.x, you should see a Featured Image box on the right-hand side of the post or page edit screen. Look for the link to “Set Featured...
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