Title: Exclude posts without thumbnail?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Exclude posts without thumbnail?

 *  [boonesimpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonesimpson/)
 * (@boonesimpson)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-without-thumbnail/)
 * I have a slider that is feeding posts from a category, I was hoping for a way
   to exclude posts WITHOUT featured images without having to manually add or exclude
   post ids? perhaps a way to run the post ids against “has_post_thumbnail”
 * `[nivo post_type="post" category="1" numberposts=4 ]`
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/oik-nivo-slider/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/oik-nivo-slider/)

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 *  Thread Starter [boonesimpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonesimpson/)
 * (@boonesimpson)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-without-thumbnail/#post-6496339)
 * Found a solution for those who find this in the future
 * You can use the meta_key argument
 * [nivo post_type=”post” category=”1″ numberposts=4 meta_key =’_thumbnail_id’]
 * Will only grab 4 posts from category 1 that has a thumbnail.
 *  Plugin Author [bobbingwide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobbingwide/)
 * (@bobbingwide)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-without-thumbnail/#post-6496651)
 * Hi Boone, that’s a nice solution. I should document it.
 *  Thread Starter [boonesimpson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonesimpson/)
 * (@boonesimpson)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-without-thumbnail/#post-6496653)
 * Great, Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-without-thumbnail/#post-6496653)
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