Title: Using featured image
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using featured image

 *  Resolved [mccreath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mccreath/)
 * (@mccreath)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image/)
 * How does one call the featured image for a text block? I added one and it doesn’t
   display automatically, but I don’t see a way to call it specifically. In the 
   case of this specific block, I’m using it as a widget in a sidebar.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/reusable-text-blocks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reusable-text-blocks/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Hal Gatewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halgatewood/)
 * (@halgatewood)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image/#post-5080009)
 * Yes, It’s just there because some people asked for it to be available. It does
   not pull in automatically.
 * I would recommend using this: where post_id would be the ID of your text block:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail)
 * Hope that helps.
 *  Plugin Author [Hal Gatewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halgatewood/)
 * (@halgatewood)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image/#post-5080073)
 * I just added in version 1.4.6 the ability to make custom templates. It looks 
   for a template file like `text-blocks-123.php` where 123 is the ID of the text
   block you are loading. In that file you can then use the post thumbnail and lots
   of other stuff.

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 * Last reply from: [Hal Gatewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halgatewood/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-featured-image/#post-5080073)
 * Status: resolved