Title: Cannot set Featured Image using NextGEN gallery
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cannot set Featured Image using NextGEN gallery

 *  [nxpage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nxpage/)
 * (@nxpage)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-featured-image-using-nextgen-gallery/)
 * There are numerous post on the web about this issue going back more than a year
   but as of 3/22/12 have not found a fix. I am having the same issue as everyone
   else with a number of different themes and the NextGEN plugin. Setting Featured
   Image in WP page or post edit shows the image in the featured image panel but
   it does not show up anywhere when published, no thumbnails, no featured image.
   The only way it works is to upload a duplicate image to the WP media library 
   and get it from there. As a photographer managing hundreds of images this bug
   cripples work-flow and defeats having NextGEN cleanly manage all my photos.
 * Google “nextgen featured image” to view all the developer posts regarding this
   problem.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [bitterer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bitterer/)
 * (@bitterer)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-featured-image-using-nextgen-gallery/#post-3586563)
 * +1
 * Same problem here. Some people claim to have the solution by going through the
   Media Manager, and yes, I can select an image from NG, but it only shows on the
   post’s panel. Click on the image again, and Media Manager shows an empty gray
   box. And as you say, the image shows nowhere else either. Not good.
 *  [hcleary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcleary/)
 * (@hcleary)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-featured-image-using-nextgen-gallery/#post-3586564)
 * I am having the same problem. I can set a featured image using Add Media > NextGEN
   Gallery > [full directions [here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-gallery-and-wordpress-351-cant-set-featured-image-from-my-gallery)],
   but it does not display on the frontend.
 * In case it matters, we are using the Genesis framework

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## Tags

 * [featured image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/featured-image/)
 * [nextgen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nextgen/)

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 * Last reply from: [hcleary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcleary/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-set-featured-image-using-nextgen-gallery/#post-3586564)
 * Status: not resolved