No Featured Image Option in New/Edit Event

[Eric Wentworth]

Hi there,

I’ve given a shot to the fix here…

No option to add featured image in single event

…as this seems to be a common problem, but to no avail. I do have an older theme, but I’m hoping there’s a way to modify it to create the proper meta box. The theme shows the Featured Image box in the Post dialogue for the rest of the site.

How would I tailor the code, and where, to add Featured Images to the Events admin?

[Barry]

Hmm, well one other possibility is that the featured image metabox is present but hidden. With that same snippet suggested in the other topic you linked to, can you visit the event editor and access the Screen Options pulldown: ensure the featured images option is checked.

Does that help at all?

[Eric Wentworth]

I’ve actually already looked at that possibility, but there’s no option available for the Featured Image box.

[Barry]

OK, in that case I can only imagine your theme is registering its post thumbnail support at some atypical point or else something went wrong when you added that snippet.

Can you confirm where you placed it exactly? Can you also try amending it to something like this:

add_action( 'init', 'univeral_featured_img_support', 1000 );

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

(This will simply increase the chances of it successfully overridding the theme.)

[Eric Wentworth]

I placed code in my child theme’s functions.php file to try and add functionality for the thumbnails based on some of the other threads.

However, I gave a shot to the code block you have above and voila – that did the trick beautifully, thank you.

[Barry]

I’m glad to hear that 🙂

In that case I’ll go ahead and close this topic – but of course if any other issues crop up please don’t hesitate to create a new topic and one of the team will be only too happy to assist.

Thanks again!

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