“featured image” field not showing in the admin panel

  • Resolved M1chel

    (@m1chel)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    I have created two custom posts with Pods that have only 1 custom field and I selected in “advanced options” to display Title, Editor, Featured Image, and Excerpt.

    In the custom post admin page Featured Image isn’t showing.

    The only other plugins I have installed are
    – rankmath seo
    – all-in-one wp migration
    – Formidable forms
    – FontAwesome
    – SVG Support
    – White Label CMS (but I haven’t set it yet, it hasn’t modified anything)

    the curious thing is that featured images must have worked earlier because I have uploaded them in earlier articles. when I came back today the admin box is nowhere to be found.

    Can somebody help me with this?

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  • Thread Starter M1chel

    (@m1chel)

    To answer my own question for reference to anybody might have a similar problem in the future:

    the problem was in my custom theme.
    after some debugging using the diagnostic tool of the plugin “healthcheck and troubleshooting” I found out switching to a base theme like twentytwenty restored the featured image panel.
    I’m not sure why in my theme it worked for some time and disappeared later but the solution was to add support for featured images and thumbnails in the function.php file.

    so I added this code found on stack exchange

    function my_theme_setup(){
    add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
}

add_action('after_setup_theme', 'my_theme_setup');
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