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 or set thumbnails for special features of your theme.
Setting a Featured Image
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 Choose a 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, you’ll see one or more images displayed as thumbnails. Click on the one you want to use as a featured image. It will then appear outlined in blue with a checkmark. If desired, you can add a caption and alt text under the Attachment Details area (optional).
Next, click the button Set 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.
Removing a Featured Image
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.
Featured Header Images
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:
Other Featured Images
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.
- Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.
- 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
- Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.
- Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.
- 216 x 100 on featured posts slider
- You are able to set sizes for the rest in Appearance → Theme Options → Featured Images
- Featured Header Image: 1440 x 500, displays as a background image to the header
- Large: 660 x 440, displays at the top of single posts and pages
- Thumbnail: 219 x 219, displays at the top
- Large: 490 x 200 on archive and index
- Thumbnail: 70 x 70 in Bueno Featured Posts widget
- The max size of a featured image for a page specific background image 1600px wide
- A featured image for blog posts works best with images at least 618 wide
- A featured image for food menu items works best with images at least 138 wide, 104 height.
- A featured image that is at least 990 x 180 pixels will be used as the header image for that post/page (if the featured image is smaller than these dimensions, then the theme will display the custom header image, if one has been added).
- Hero slider: 940×350
- Single post page: 530×300
- Featured posts: 240×140
- Featured Content Section: 588 x 289
- Sticky Posts Featured Image: 880 x 390
- An image that works best with images at least 588 wide.
- Sticky Posts Featured Image Slider: at least 850 pixels wide, 400 pixels height.
- Thumbnail works best with 850 pixels wide.
- Post Featured Images: 660 x unlimited height
- An image works best with images at least 1230 pixels wide for pages, 810 pixels for posts.
- Sticky Posts Featured Slider: 840 x 280
- Thumbnail: 160 x 120
- Sticky Posts Featured Image Slider: at least 888 pixels wide
- It works best with images at least 672 wide.
- Horizontal Featured Images: 384 x 285
- Vertical Featured Images: 248 x 330
- Square Featured Images: 384 x 384
- Logo: 180 pixels wide, flexible height
- Sticky Posts Featured Images: 590 x 275
- Thumbnail: 250 x 200
- Blog/Archive pages: 220 x 150
- Single Posts: 640 wide, flexible height
- Logo: 115 wide, flexible height
- Showcase page large feature: 740 x 288
- Showcase page small feature: 500 x 300
- Blog/Archive pages: 100 x 100 (circular)
- An image that works best with images at least 210 wide.
- Thumbnail: 90 x 75 for non-featured posts on index
- One-column feature: 594 x 250
- Two-column feature: 278 x 150
- Featured images are 920 x 280 pixels
- Featured images are 668 pixels x unlimited height on Sticky posts on the home page
- Thumbnail: 150 x 100 on home page and archive pages
- Featured images are 520 x unlimited height on home page and archive pages
- Thumbnail: 300 x 200 on home page and archive pages
- Thumbnail: 619 x unlimited height on home page and archive pages
- Large: 950 x 425 for home page slideshow
- Thumbnail: 150 x 150 on archive and search
- Featured Images appear on Sticky posts at 100 x 100
- Featured Images appear on Sticky posts at 940 x 240
- Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.
- Thumbnail: 128 x 128 on archive pages
- Sticky Posts Featured Slider: 640 x 430
- Featured slider: 560×315
- Featured posts: 180×130
- Post thumbnails are 154 pixels wide
- Sticky post thumbnails are 640 pixels wide
- Sticky post thumbnails are 750 pixels wide in the featured slider
- Regular post thumbnails are 450 pixels wide
- Thumbnail: 250 wide on index and single
- Sticky post thumbnails and Standard Blog Style featured thumbnails are 660 wide by 360 tall
- Showcase Blog Style small thumbnails are 145 wide by 110 tall
- Primary Featured Images: 900 wide by 900 tall
- Featured Page Image: 980 wide by 640 tall, hard crop
- Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.
- Featured Images will appear above the standard post on all views and the maximum width is 1272px.
- 565 x 180 on single posts and pages as well as for sticky posts in the blog.
- 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.
- Panoramic images must be at least 1500 wide and have an aspect ratio of 3×1 (width x height)
- Large: 640 x 290 in the Sticky posts slider
- Small: 290 x 290 thumbnails are used on the home, category, tag, archives, and search pages.
- Sticky post thumbnails are 500 pixels wide in the featured slider
- Featured category thumbnails are 213 x 136.
- Thumbnails on the Portfolio page template are 280 x 207.
- Regular post thumbnails are 664 x 170.
- Post thumbnails are 750 x 250.
- Images can be any size for display grid template but will be constrained to 294 x 221 if larger.
- 292 is the minimum required width for featured images in the profile page template. Any height can be used.
- For all other page templates a width size of 994 pixles wide and 650 tall is suggested.
- Hero slider: 1600×440 max
- Content with one sidebar: 670×383
- Content with two sidebars: 430×248
- Full width page: 910×511
- Audio player artwork: 220×220 max
- 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.
- 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
- An image that works best with images at least 350 wide and 248 height.
- Featured image thumbnails are displayed on the double-column front page layout. With the right sidebar active, the thumbnails are: 260 wide x 160 high. If the right sidebar is not active, the thumbnails are 367 x 160.
- Featured Content area needs images at least 960 wide
- Individual posts need an image at least 645 wide
- An image that works best with images at least 830 wide.
- Sticky posts in archives: 466 wide by 180 tall.
- Posts in archives: 222 wide by 180 tall.
- Single post templates: 186 wide by 186 tall.
- Thumbnail: 250 wide on index and single
- Featured Post Slider: 950 pixels wide by 270 pixels tall; posts must be Sticky and have a featured thumbnail assigned to them in order to show up here
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.
- An image that is at least 940 x 198 pixels will be used as the header image for that post/page.
- An image that is at least 742 pixels wide will be displayed above the title — and before the rest of the content — on both “standard” posts and on pages. “Standard” posts are posts without a specific Post Format.
- An image that is at least 624 pixels wide will be used as the featured image on posts in the “standard” post format—aka, normal posts.
- Thumbnail: 250 wide on index and single
- Thumbnail: 326 wide on index, archive, and search
- Featured Images will appear above the post on all views and fill the maxium width of the content area.
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