Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

The Featured Image area

For the Featured Image area to show we need to create a functions.php file:

1. Let's create a new file and call it functions.php. Then let's create a function theme_setup(). Now, let's add a comment Featured Image Support and also add add_theme_support() with the value post-thumbnails:

      <?php      function theme_setup(){          // Featured Image Support          add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');      }

2. Underneath the function declaration, we will place add_action() and then pass in the hook that we want, which is going to be after_setup_theme. Then we will place the function that we want to use, which is theme_setup:

      add_action('after_setup_theme', 'theme_setup');

3. Let's save that and reload:

Now you can see that we have a Featured ...