Featured Image not displayed on About Page

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    horusthegod · Member ·

    On the About page, my image doesn’t show up. I’ve tried uploading the picture when editing the About page (inserting the image in the “Featured Image” block), and then when I preview the page or publish it and check it later on my blog, the picture is not being displayed. Instead I am getting the same Header Image as in the Front Page.

    Shouldn’t the About Page display the Featured Image instead of the Header image?

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  • staff-hbadger · Staff ·

    Hi hoursthegod,

    In order for the About page to display a different featured header image from the home page, your theme must support featured header images.

    Featured Header Images

    Note: This feature only works with themes that allow custom header images and have featured header images enabled.

    (from http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/)

    The Tonal theme you are using does not appear to support that option, but here is a list of themes that do:

    http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/featured-image-header/

    Hope that helps!

  • Unknown's avatar
    horusthegod · Member ·

    Thanks a ton Andrea, for the very prompt response.

    But then what is the “Featured Image” for while creating a new page. The theme asks me (or should I say permits me?) to insert an image as Featured Image while creating a new page.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Featured Image is ALWAYS in your sidebar. Even on themes that do not use featured images. It’s in case you later switch to a theme that does support them.

  • staff-hbadger · Staff ·

    Hi Horusthegod,

    From what I understand, the featured image option in a theme provides a uniform way of displaying whatever image you choose to be the essence image for each post. In other words, each theme might display a featured image differently, but within a theme the image for each post or page that is selected as feature image for that post or page will display in the same way creating a consistent look across your site.

    On your tonal theme, it looks like the featured image will display as a large image before the text of the post or page it is associated with. See the theme support page for example:

    http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/tonal/

    One way to play with the featured image and see how it looks across themes would be to set the featured image for a page then demo other themes to see how it displays differently.

    For a general discussion on the function/purpose of featured images, this overview might help. It is geared toward WordPress.org users but the information is still relevant:

    http://bobwp.com/exactly-what-is-that-featured-image-in-wordpress/

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