Title: Adding Featured Image?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Featured Image?

 *  [wadeouellet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wadeouellet/)
 * (@wadeouellet)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/)
 * With WordPress’s featured image option for posts, how do you actually get that
   image to display in posts and in the loop? I’m assuming it’s just some quick 
   PHP in the template but I can’t find it.
 * Thanks,
    Wade

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 *  Thread Starter [wadeouellet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wadeouellet/)
 * (@wadeouellet)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/#post-1506278)
 * Ok, this resourced helped: [http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/)
 * Still one more problem. For some reason it’s cutting some height off the image.
   The natural image size is 278×278, I set the thumb size to 75×75 and it’s cutting
   the source image to 278×198, therefore making the thumb 75×59.
 *  [dogshindleg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogshindleg/)
 * (@dogshindleg)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/#post-1506631)
 * I’m having this problem too. Why does it crop to 198px high?
 *  [oldbag66](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldbag66/)
 * (@oldbag66)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/#post-1506633)
 * me too, any ideas where this size is set?
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/#post-1506634)
 * do you use `set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50 );`
 * or
 * `set_post_thumbnail_size( 50, 50, true );`
 * you would want to use the second option (true) to have an exact sized thumbnail
 * The first option has the image resized first, whereas the second crops to exact
   size
 * The tutorial above gives a good description of the 2 modes
 *  [Digital Raindrops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeptris/)
 * (@adeptris)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/#post-1506635)
 * Try this method by using a custom image size, I use this and have different sized
   thumbnails named ‘home-page’ and ‘list-page’ and just add the different calls
   to return the images:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Esmi/add_image_size()](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Esmi/add_image_size())
 * David
 *  [JacksonVintage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacksonvintage/)
 * (@jacksonvintage)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-1/#post-1506648)
 * With the ‘latest post’ image I cant seem to change the image size. Can anyone
   help me here. Where can I change this? I’m at the early stages of learning how
   WP works so if you can give any advice with this in mind that would be fantastic.
   Thanks in advance.
 * [hotsalt.info](http://hotsalt.info) is the address of my blog.

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