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Why Aren’t My Blog Images Showing Up?

February 7, 2021 by Nancy Fields 8 Comments

2 Reasons Why Your Blog Images Don’t Showing Up on Your Main Blog Page

  1. You did not add them as a featured image
  2. A plugin conflict

FYI: My older blog images stopped showing up after I installed an SSL Certificate on my site, but most people’s blog thumbnails don’t show up because they have not added them as a featured image, or they have a plugin conflict. This article address both of those problems.

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No Featured Image

To confirm you are missing a featured image, log into your WordPress site and go to your dashboard.

  1. Choose Post > All Posts > name of post and look under featured image
  2. If you do not see this right hand menu, click on your settings icon to reveal your Post and Block menus
WordPress Set how to access Gutenberg Post selection illustrated

Scroll down and toggle open Featured image

WordPress Set featured image under Gutenberg Post selection illustrated

Set featured image

WordPress Set featured image illustrated

If no featured image is displayed, add a featured image by clicking on “Set featured image.” Upload an image from your desktop or your media library, and be sure to tag your image.

Click update and view your main blog page

Plugin Conflict

If your featured image is not showing up on your main blog page you may have a javascript error.

To confirm this is your problem you will need to go into the development tools of your website browser. Because Google Chrome is so popular, I will show you how to check this in Chrome. 

Chrome menu in the upper-right-hand corner select More Tools > Developer Tools

Chrome developer tools screenshot how to access

Check for an Error message under Console tab

Console screenshot Chrome developer tools

Disable all your plugins

WordPress installed plugins deactivate illustrated

Select all your plugins before you select Disable

Check your page

Jetpack and Smush Plugin Conflict

One person discovered their featured images were not displaying because they had a conflict between two plugins: Smush and Jetpack. She found the problem using the Health Check plugin.

In early 2020, WordPress added Health Check to the WordPress Dashboard. You will find it under Tools > Site Health, so check here before installing the Health Check plugin.

WordPress Site Health page

Add a Default Featured Image

If you or your team members are continually forgetting to add your featured images, you can use a plugin called Default Featured Image.

This plugin will add the exact same featured image if you leave the “Featured image” selection blank.

The is perfect if you are just starting out and developing our brand.

Upload Default featured image plugin – Install & Activate

WordPress Dashboard Plugins Add New Default featured image plugin Install Now

Set up your default featured image Step 1

WordPress Dashboard Plugins Default featured image plugin illustration

Set up your default featured image Step 2

WordPress Dashboard Settings Media Select default featured image

Choose your featured image from your Media Library & Set default featured image

Media Library Save featured image

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Filed Under: 10-Minute Monday, business, WordPress

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Comments

  1. Melissa Yap says

    November 17, 2021 at 4:21 am

    Hi thank-you soo much, your answers saved me after i had a difficult problem;
    the photos and thumbnails from my WP website wouldn’t show up on my phone or another search engine, all the photos were missing.
    I found the problem by looking at the developer tools conflict! I noticed that otter was the problem! I just recently started using a button as an easy way for members to link to youTube and other internet sites. It was the only plugin i had to turn off/ deactivate.
    As I’m over 55years i thought this was going to be my limit of working on my own website. So thank you! You are a life saver.

    Reply
    • Nancy Fields says

      November 19, 2021 at 12:20 pm

      Never too old! So happy you found the answer you needed.

      Reply
  2. Mary says

    November 17, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    Thank you for your video it was heaven sent. I had been searching for an answer for why my images were not showing up on my website for a week. I called my hosting company which tried to get me to sign up to there web developing specialist for over a hundred dollars a month. Crazy. While watching your video your first addressed setting the image as a featured image. And that was my problem I didn’t need to go any further into your video. I tried it and I am happy to say it solved my problem. So simple. Thank you very much you saved me. I am subscribing to your channel.

    Reply
    • Nancy Fields says

      November 19, 2021 at 12:18 pm

      Thank you! So glad it was helpful. You can also join me live on 10-Minute Monday and ask questions specific to any WordPress or challenge you may have.

      Reply
  3. Anan says

    January 7, 2022 at 3:21 am

    Thank You Nancy so much, have a great day ahead!

    Reply
    • Nancy Fields says

      January 7, 2022 at 4:56 pm

      Glad it was helpful.

      Reply
  4. Kip Twitchell says

    February 2, 2022 at 6:40 pm

    I’m interested in what you had to do to fix this problem: “My older blog images stopped showing up after I installed an SSL Certificate on my site”

    Reply
    • Nancy Fields says

      February 2, 2022 at 8:58 pm

      Hi Kip,

      Once you installed the SSL certificate your images would also need to begin with https. This plugin should help fix those issues easily: https://really-simple-ssl.com/

      Reply

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