wordpress featured image

Question

I'm new to Wordpress and I'm trying to create a new theme for it. I've downloaded the latest version (3.2.1) and installed it successfuly. But when I install my wordpress theme (to start to add the PHP) and try to create a new post, what happens is that the Set Featured Image box disappears and it only shows again when I return to the default theme.

Any suggestions for this? Thank you

Answer 1

What is happening is that your theme does not have support for featured image. What you need to do is add in the functions.php file of your theme the line :

if (function_exists('add_theme_support')) {                     
    add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); 
}

and then you will be able to use featured image in your theme