Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

Creating a single post and adding an image

We will now see how to create a single post. If we click on Read More now, it takes us to the single post, but it's not what we want, we want to change this. Also, we want the ability to add a featured image to a post, also called a thumbnail. Let's start with the thumbnail. We'll first go to functions.php and we need to enable that support for our theme. For this, we'll go to the adv_theme_support() function and add a Featured Image Support comment. Next, we'll enter the add_theme_support() function and pass in post-thumbnails, as shown here:

// Theme Supportfunction adv_theme_support(){    // Featured Image Support    add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');

Let's save this, and if we go to, let's say ...