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What is featured image in WordPress and what is its usage

Open Post editor and scroll down the page, you will see a section for Featured image in the right side of page.

Featured image

It was known as post thumbnail in old WordPress version but from 3.0 it has changed to featured image. 


What is Featured image?

It is a feature of a theme to represent the image for post.

How to add Featured image?

Click on link "Set featured image". 

Set featured image

A media gallery box will open to upload the image. Choose your preferred image for the post and click on blue button in the right corner.

Media gallery

You can see the image in featured image section.


Now where will the image display in the post?

The position of the featured image is depend on the theme support. To explain this we will take examples of different themes.

First let's check it with Twenty Fourteen theme.


Image shows above the post title on the home page.  Now check the full post you will get the same scene.

Twenty Fourteen full post

If you add image inside post then you will see two image with post.

 image inside post

So you can add additional image inside the post with featured image if needed or if you want image with post, don't add featured image in this theme.

Now let's examine this with another theme Writr.

Writr theme home page

Image shows below the post title on the home page and you will see the same in full post.

Writr theme full post

You will find an additional image inside post as you have seen in Twenty Fourteen theme, nothing new. Add image according to your need.

One more check with Genesis theme. It is different from the above two. How? Look at its home page. You will see only featured image.

Genesis theme featured image

And now see on full post. Here you will see a difference. You will not get featured image here. Only image inside post will show.

Genesis theme full post 

Another point is if you don't add featured image then it will show image inside the post as thumbnail in home page.


thumbnail

I think you got the point, yes there is a setting for featured image in genesis theme.

Settings


So according to the above diagram, we can easily understand that it is overall based on theme and the usability of featured image is depend on customization requirement.
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