Need custom picture field for pages

Question

I want to have a picture or multiple pictures on each page in wordpress.

AFAIK there are two standart ways of doing this

1. in WYSIWYG editor, attach file etc

2. widgets.

Problem is, those wont do for my clients.

So how can I make a custom field on each page, where the user selects a pic if he wants.

I know there is a plugin, "sidebar per page" but i would like to do it without plugin, and if possible all the page editing happens on admin>pages>page x without the need to go to widgets are and so on.

Pls share if there is a way to do this, or what it would take.

TY

Answer 1

It sounds like "Featured" or "Thumbnail" images would work. These are enabled by default for 'posts'. For 'pages' they need to be enabled, but that is as simple as adding add_post_type_support( 'page', 'thumbnail' ); to your theme's functions.php hooked on init, and, of course, modifying the theme template files to display the featured image.

function add_featured_to_post_wpse_83508() {
  add_post_type_support( 'page', 'thumbnail' );
}
add_action('init','add_featured_to_post_wpse_83508');

The theme itself has to register its support with add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

In the Loop, the_post_thumbnail() will display the image

Answer 2

There is an excellent (very popular, very mature, very well documented) plugin called 'Advanced custom fields' that makes working with custom fields really easy. It's what I have used.

Featured image is good but I'm not sure it allows multiple images.