add featured image support wordpress Complete 2022

add featured image support wordpress

Add below given code inside functions.php. It will enable the featured image support.

     // Add Featured Image support


    function addFeaturedImageSupport(){
        add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
    }

    add_action('after_setup_theme','addFeaturedImageSupport');

This will add the support for Featured images

Now edit the post set a featured image and then where ever you want to display the image add this line of code.

<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

Image should work. You can pass few arguments in this function read here

In case you want to add image sizes also

// Add Featured image Support.



 function addFeaturedImageSupport(){
    add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');

    // here we are adding 2 image sizes for different pages.

    add_image_size('post-thumbnail', 600,400, true);
    add_image_size('blog-list-page', 250,100, true);
}


add_action('after_setup_theme','addFeaturedImageSupport');