Featured Image, Categories options not appearing in WordPress Editor, gutenberg

Hi @akiraanastasia,

To show Categories and?Featured Image?options properly on your WordPress editor, please go through these methods:

• Configure WordPress Dashboard Settings

Go to WP admin dashboard and select Screen Options. Check the?Featured image?option to display a featured image column in your post/page lists.

If the?Featured image?option doesn’t exist in the?Screen Options?tab, your current theme may not support the featured image functionality. It’s best to contact your theme’s developer for assistance or address this issue manually as mentioned in the last step.

• Fix Featured Image not showing on a Blog Post Gallery page

In this way, enabling the?Display featured image?option prompts WordPress to retrieve featured images from the latest posts. A blank space will appear if you haven’t assigned a featured image to the post in question or set up a default featured image. Here are the steps:

1- After adding the page title, place the Latest Posts block anywhere on the page.
2- Open the?Block?tab, enable the?Display Featured Image?option, and click?Publish.
3- Return to the dashboard, then navigate to?Settings?→?Reading. Set?Your homepage displays?to?A static page. Click on the?Homepage?dropdown menu and choose the page you created earlier. Select?Save Changes.

• If you still can’t see the featured image meta box in the content editor or show post thumbnails correctly, most likely your current theme doesn’t support featured images.

In some cases, the code to enable the featured image functionality might be missing. To solve this, add the following code to the bottom of your theme’s?functions.php?file via an FTP client or a File Manager:

add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array(
'post',
'page',
'custom-post-type-name',
));

Reload your admin dashboard and clear the website cache to see whether the featured image section appears when editing a post or page.

You can also check for any plugin conflicts by disabling them temporarily and then activating and checking them one by one.

Hope it helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

@saniamohammadi 1. So i checked screen options and featured image option is disappeared from there. There is no option for me.

2. https://snipboard.io/5Nwifj.jpg in preferences also i dont see categories, featured image, etc.

@akiraanastasia A few things to check here;

Does the issue occur on WordPress posts?
Or are you using custom post types right now? If yes, did you code it or is it a specific plugin or just added by your theme?

I will update the code as soon as you give me more information.

And please let me know if you tried other methods as well.

@saniamohammadi Hi, this is default WordPress post in editor. Looks like it started to happen after latest update. Please fix it.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by akiraanastasia.

@saniamohammadi

Hi, I found these 2 threads, it means this problem is not new. Please check:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/missing-the-upload-featured-image-option-after-update-the-wp-5-9/page/2/

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/54597

Hi @akiraanastasia,

I have checked the links you provided, and although I am not a WordPress Core Developer, the issues were reported a long time ago. Since this error is just isolated on your website for now, please make sure to follow these steps one by one:

Run a conflict test
a) Disable all your plugins
b) Switch to a default WordPress theme, e.g., Twenty Twenty-Four
Clear your cache
Check if it resolves the issue or not. If the issue was resolved, it is due to the plugin incompatibility, and you need to let their support team know about this issue.

If the issue still persists, you can consider hiring a WordPress Developer for more technical assistance and a solution to this issue.?

Already did that. @saniamohammadi now waiting for Core dev to response on this thread.