Back to Using Featured Images Video
welcome in this video we're going to
talk about featured images
now uh right here on this page i've got
an example of a featured image this is a
basic page
with a featured image enabled at the top
here now featured images don't just
appear at the top of your pages like
this they will also appear in a few
other places
so for example in search results if i
were to search for this page name here
you will notice that that same image
appears as a thumbnail next to my search
results
if you add the featured image to a news
article or an event
and you have those events displaying in
either like an article chain
like here or an event chain you'll
notice that the thumbnail
is the featured image that you add to
that page now
the thing about featured images is that
they will also
show up in social media posts so if i
were to copy this link
go to my facebook page and you know post
this link on my facebook
the thumbnail that appears next to that
facebook post would be the same featured
image now you don't have to have the
featured images appear on the page like
this
this is a stylistic choice that is yours
to make
but in any case regardless of whether
you add a featured image
and have it appear on the on the top of
your page or your article or your events
you can still hide that and have it
display everywhere else
so let's go ahead and walk through how
we add a featured image to
like a page or an article or event or
whatever you need to do the first thing
to do
is to add the image to media library so
we're going to go up to
content media add media and we're going
to choose an image here
i'll choose from my computer real quick
we'll add a title
alt text
and the the main thing you want is that
when you're uploading your media
image what you're going to do is go to
the featured crop and you're going to
click inside and drag and make the
selection of the image you want to
appear
for the featured image now the featured
image is pretty large
the dimensions of that is going to be
close to a jumbotron so it's going to be
1200 by 400 pixels so just make sure you
have a
nice large image you can use i'll go
ahead and move that around
then when i'm done i'll click save
all right so now that we have our image
uploaded now let's add it
to something let's go ahead and create
an article so we'll go and create an
article here
let's say we'll create a news article
and we'll add a title some text
and then where you're going to add the
images right here under display
you're going to choose add media under
the featured image section
and then you'll choose the image you
want to appear so we'll check the box
here for that one i just uploaded
click insert selected and that's really
it
now you'll see right below that by
default is a box
checked for a hide featured image so
what that means is
if i go ahead and publish this article
that featured image was added to this
article but it's not displaying on the
actual article here
like on the first example page i showed
you so you'll see if we go back to that
landing page with the news feed
you'll see that that thumbnail appearing
there is the featured image i uploaded
but if i go back to my article it's not
there if i do want it to appear on the
article all i have to do is edit that
and go back to my display settings and
then uncheck the box for hide featured
image
and there it is
so there you have it featured images are
really helpful for
you know adding a little extra pizzazz
to your search results into your
uh article feeds and social media posts
and it can add a little extra stylistic
element similar to
what a jumbotron would look like um you
know to your basic pages your articles
and whatnot
so i hope this was helpful thanks for
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