Display featured image in WordPress post as full, large, medium, thumbnail size
Every available WordPress theme doesn’t give you the option to control if you want to show featured image in a post or in what size you want to display them.
The image is crucial for your blog post as it’s probably first thing audience notice.
For ex, I am using Hueman theme and that doesn’t display featured image in single post. Here is what I did and thought to share so you can be benefited.
- Go to your theme directory
- For ex: wp-content/themes/hueman
- Take a backup of single.php
- Edit single.php and search for <?php the_content(); ?>
- Add following above the <?php the_content(); ?>
<?php
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
the_post_thumbnail( 'full' );
}
?>
- Save the file and refresh your wordpress to see them in action.
Above code will show featured image in the single post as original image size. This is how single.php will look like.
If you want to control the size, you can change the_post_thumbnail parameter.
To display default thumbnail size (default 150px x 150px max)
the_post_thumbnail();
To display in medium size (default 300px x 300px max)
the_post_thumbnail( 'medium' );
To display in large size (default 640px x 640px max)
the_post_thumbnail( 'large' );
To display in original uploadedsize
the_post_thumbnail( 'full' );
This has helped me and I hope you too. Don’t forget to compress your images with these awesome free online image compressor tool. Let me know how it goes with your theme.
Thanks Chandan and GeekFlare!
I’m using ‘Kontast’ theme which does not have featured image in it’s single.php
This is the first time I visited your site. I’m really fortunate because you helped me on the first meet.
Thanks again Bro!
Great to know, Indika.
Thanks. This article really helped me fix a page. Very useful.
Glad to hear Susheel. Thanks for stopping by.
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my single.php like this:
when i paste your code, there is nothing happened. i want to see featured image at homepage :/ actually i can see featured images when i use “twenty sixteen” theme, bu i want to use hueman…
Thanks for tutorial, glad to working in my blog, but, how to used it on Hueman Child Themes? 🙂
Glad it was helpful to you, Farrel. You may include the PHP code in child functions.php to see if that works.
So, you mean i just to do copy paste that code to functions.php? I do that, but not working?
Ohh, I just copy paste the “single.php” file and “tmpl” folder to Hueman Child, as Kent says on Comment. Thank You, it works great 🙂
Glad to hear it worked, Farrel. Have fun!
thanks so muc, it works great !!!! 🙂
Glad to know,Romina.
What about many posts in one page.
for ex. catalogue for movies and there are many movies(posts) in one page still not filtered.
Rather than put the mods in the theme’s simple.php file, which will get overwritten the next time the theme is updated, create a child-theme (the plugin “Childify Me” makes it easy), and copy the simple.php file from the themes/hueman directory to the themes/hueman-child directory, and make the mods there.
(I had earlier reported that this doesn’t work, but I must’ve had a typo or something, because I just tried it again and it works as expected, at least for the “medium” size.)
Ah, I just found the ridiculously-easy way to include the feature image in the single post page; when editing the post, simply change its type from Standard to Image; the only difference is that the Image type includes the feature image in the single post.
Thanks for sharing, Kent.
Great post, simple back to basics.. Ive been busy with a custom theme design and stumbled across this post. Sometimes the simple solutions work best. 🙂
Thanks Eddy
Wonderful ! Simple and without another plugin. Love it.
Thanks Hruodger, i am glad it helped you.