2 Reasons Why Your Blog Images Don’t Showing Up on Your Main Blog Page
- You did not add them as a featured image
- 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.
- Choose Post > All Posts > name of post and look under featured image
- If you do not see this right hand menu, click on your settings icon to reveal your Post and Block menus
Scroll down and toggle open Featured image
Set featured image
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
Check for an Error message under Console tab
Disable all your plugins
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.
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
Set up your default featured image Step 1
Set up your default featured image Step 2
Choose your featured image from your Media Library & Set default featured image
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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.
Never too old! So happy you found the answer you needed.
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.
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.
Thank You Nancy so much, have a great day ahead!
Glad it was helpful.
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”
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/