The stereotype that an image is worth a thousand words is still alive and well, but photography has certainly lost some of its power since the heyday of print media. The limited space and the expensiveness of the photos were simply attributed to their importance and respect as a medium. But today’s digital media has endless room for photos that are also getting cheaper. So much so that some types of images can start to get in the way of good website design. Which brings us to the current topic – hiding featured image on individual posts in WordPress.
If you’ve been looking for a checkbox or setting to hide the featured image in a post on your website, don’t worry. There are at least two ways to make the featured image appear only when you want it, and we cover both – saving you the trouble of searching for a solution that doesn’t exist on your website. So sit back and get ready to read:
The main purpose of the featured image was to serve as a kind of thumbnail when posts are listed on your website’s blog page or, for example, on your blog’s homepage. Sure, it’s better to set the mood for a how-to article than to serve as an example, but there’s still a lot of value in having that thumbnail to grab attention and get people to click on that article.
But the problem is that featured images are used for more than that. Depending on the theme you use for your website, a featured image can serve as anything from a headline to a source of headache-inducing clutter, you just have to remove it so you can stop the attack on your visitors’ senses. But of course you don’t want to remove them all, as this will make the website look bland.
That’s why the featured images are lacking in the app, even though it’s a great concept. It may not be their fault, as it is often the WordPress theme creators who find new and uninteresting uses for the thumbnail. Let’s see how you put an end to this madness.
First stop to check if your WordPress theme includes an option that will let you hide the featured image on certain posts in the post. get over your head Posts > All Posts from your website backend and select one of your posts to edit. In the lower right corner, you will see the featured image option. Check if there is any mention of hiding the featured image.
If you don’t see such an option, scroll down further. elements or a similar option. If nothing is there, the people who created your theme may not have included a quick and easy way to hide the featured image when it’s not needed.
To be safe, take a closer look at the options in your website’s control panel. If there’s mention of an option that shares its name with the theme or even the studio that created it, have a look around. This is where you can find theme options not found anywhere else, and that’s exactly why your featured image transition could be among them.
If you’re lucky in your quest to restore the featured image as the source of the thumbnail, don’t worry. For this WordPress, i.e. anything core developers, or in this case theme developers, forgot to develop, many people did just that and released the feature as a plugin.
You will notice that there are several plugins on WordPress.org that take care of featured images. Today we will show you Conditionally show featured images on individual posts and pages. The name might be a mouthful, sure, but the plugin is well-rated, regularly maintained, and often featured in featured image-related articles. So go ahead and install it and enable it and once it’s installed and activated, revisit one of your posts with a featured image.
Just below the featured image option, you should see a checkbox that allows you to prevent the featured image from being displayed in the singular view. While this will not allow it to be used as a header or header image, it will retain its functionality as a thumbnail.
If you’re interested in creating the same effect on multiple posts at once – maybe even every post on your website and every post you plan to have – there is a plugin to help you with that too. called Hide featured image on all single pages/posts. Simply install and activate the plugin; this will prevent the theme from showing featured images on any single view of a page or a post.
Let’s wrap it up!
WordPress is always evolving – this is one of its unique selling points where a lot can change through plugin and theme development. But occasionally, the process introduces a change that is not only unwelcome but downright devastating for some.
The featured image started life as a solution to a simple problem – how to make room for a thumbnail photo in WordPress. However, over the years it has changed, becoming something completely different and prone to choosing to serve some purpose that was not originally planned.
The good news is that if you are tired of it, you can hide the featured image in individual posts on your WordPress website. It’s easy to do – some themes can even help you out. If your theme doesn’t offer you any assistance in disabling featured images, you can always turn to plugins to prevent this feature from bothering you and your website visitors.
