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Featured Images

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With custom header images, you can display your own photo on your blog’s page headers. Featured images allow for even greater customization, giving you the option to display unique custom header images for specific posts and pages.

Note: This feature only works with themes that allow custom header images and have featured header images enabled.

For example, your custom header may look like this:

But if you want to customize your About page, you can change the header image for only that page:

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In addition to featured header images, a variety of themes also support alternative featured images, such as slideshows, post thumbnails, and images attached to featured posts.

AutoFocus

  • For best home page results, upload large featured images into your single posts. This will always ensure the presence of form-fitting featured images on the home page. There’s no magic bullet for perfect home page thumbnails; you’ll need to experiment with sizing and thumbnail cropping to find what works best for your photos.
  • 800 x 1200 max on single posts (will be displayed above post title and post content)
  • 600 x 211 on archive (category, tag, date-based, author) pages
  • 595 x 211 on search archives

Bold News

  • 216 x 100 on featured posts slider
  • You are able to set sizes for the rest in Appearance → Theme Options → Featured Images

Bueno

  • Large: 490 x 200 on archive and index
  • Thumbnail: 70 x 70 in Bueno Featured Posts widget

Dusk To Dawn

  • An image that works best with images at least 588 wide.

Fresh & Clean

  • Sticky Posts Featured Slider: 840 x 280
  • Thumbnail: 160 x 120

Imbalance 2

  • An image that works best with images at least 210 wide.

Inuit Types

  • Thumbnail: 90 x 75 for non-featured posts on index
  • One-column feature: 594 x 250
  • Two-column feature: 278 x 150

Modularity Lite

  • Large: 950 x 425 for home page slideshow
  • Thumbnail: 150 x 150 on archive and search

Newsy

  • Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.

Nishita

  • Thumbnail: 128 x 128 on archive pages

Nuntius

  • Sticky Posts Featured Slider: 640 x 430

Paperpunch

  • Thumbnail: 250 wide on index and single

Reddle

  • Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.

Shaan

  • Large: 600 x 150 on single posts and pages as well as for sticky posts in the blog.
  • Small: In category, tag, archives and search pages, the “thumbnail” size will be used.

Splendio

  • Sticky Posts Featured Slider: Featured image must be at least 180 pixels wide
  • Featured images will appear above the post on the regular blog view and fill the maximum width of the content area.

Structure

  • Small: 440 x 240 on the home page for featured posts
  • Medium: 620 x 380 on the home page for latest feature post
  • Large: 640 x 392 on single posts

Suburbia

  • An image that works best with images at least 350 wide and 248 height.

ThemeMin

  • An image that works best with images at least 830 wide.

Titan

  • Thumbnail: 250 wide on index and single

Twenty Eleven
Twenty Eleven has a special Showcase template which takes advantage of Featured Images when used on sticky posts:

  • An image with a minimum height of 300 pixels and a maximum width of 500 pixels will display next to the post.
  • An image that is at least 1000 x 288 pixels will be displayed instead of the post with a title over the image.

Vigilance

  • Thumbnail: 250 wide on index and single

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Open the editor of the post or page where you want to display a unique custom header image, and locate the Featured Image module in the bottom right corner under Page Attributes. Click Set featured image.

If you don’t see the Featured Image module on your Add New or Edit Post page, please make sure you’ve selected Featured Image in your Screen Options.

You will see an uploading screen identical to that used when inserting an image into a blog post. Follow the on-screen prompts to choose the image from your computer and upload it or choose it from one of the images already in your Media Library.

Once the image has successfully been uploaded, look underneath the sizing options, and click Use as featured image:

Don’t forget to click Update on your post/page to save your changes. Your featured image is now set!

Note: If your featured image doesn’t appear after following the instructions above, please make sure that it meets the size requirements outlined here.

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To remove or change a featured image, simply re-open the post or page editor and click Remove featured image in the Featured Image module. If you remove a featured image, your custom header image will be displayed.

Last modified: February 10, 2012

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