What is a Featured Image in WordPress?
Most blogs these days prefer having the excerpts of all the posts on the main page. These will typically be with the post titles with accompanying snippets and pictures and as a rule are claimed to be the Featured Images (Post Thumbnails).
Before we go into the heart of the matter, take a note of the highlights:
- Featured Images usually accompany blog posts as thumbnails on a blog’s homepage.
- They can appear either above or below the post title and meta data on an individual post.
- They can be used as images within a post or as thumbnails too.Â
WordPress is natively capable of supporting the features images meta box, but it’s not unusual that every theme might not offer it. That’s totally acceptable, but it will be a hindrance only when another service tries to call on a featured image to include in a thumbnail. This is primarily the case when it comes to social media. Let me give you the example of Facebook, it usually fetches the featured image to be a thumbnail. So if that doesn’t exist, the first image in the body of the blog will be used for the post.
If you are not willing to switch from that theme, you might want to consider the option of adding images via a plugin.
To justify your well written blog, WordPress enables you with a Dynamic Featured Image option. This options allows you to have MULTIPLE featured images within a post or page. This is especially helpful when you use other plugins, post thumbnails or sliders that use featured images. Why limit yourself to only one featured image if you can do some awesome stuffs with multiple featured image? DFI allows you to add different number of featured images to each post and page that can be collected by the various theme functions.
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