post-thumbnails not showing in admin

  • First time post and I really hope you can help as this is doing my head in.

    I can’t for the life of me get the post thumbnails to work in my theme, I’ve followed various tutorials and the codex on wordpress and it all seems so simple (and I guess it should be), but no matter what I do, the option to add a thumbnail to the post just doesn’t show up in the admin area.

    I added the following code to my functions.php file and I think I’m right in that this should enable the option to add a thumbnail to the post, but it just doesn’t show.

    if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) {
  add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
}

    I’m guessing I’m missing something, but for the life of me I don’t know what it is, I even switched the themes to the default twentyten theme, but I couldn’t get it to work on that either.

    I’m also developing the theme locally using WAMP.

    Any help would be much appreciated as I’m sure it’s something simple I’m missing as the only way I can get thumbnails to work at the moment is by using the Thumbnail For Excerpts plugin, but I want to avoid using that if possible.

    Many Thanks

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Look at the”Screen Options” on the top right if the “Featured Image” checkbox is checked.

    Thread Starter TheShaman

    (@theshaman)

    Thanks for the reply, Featured Image is checked and showing, but still no thumbnail option?

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    try:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    Thread Starter TheShaman

    (@theshaman)

    Already done that before posting and it didn’t work either ??

    I bet it’s something really simple I’m missing!

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    try:
    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder from a fresh download of WordPress. by using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    Thread Starter TheShaman

    (@theshaman)

    Thanks, I’ll give that a go

    Thread Starter TheShaman

    (@theshaman)

    Still doesn’t work, this has got me baffled ??

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    What theme are you using (link please)?

    Thread Starter TheShaman

    (@theshaman)

    It’s my own theme and it’s not online as I’m developing it locally using WAMP, I’ve ended up having to edit the Thumbnail For Excerpts plugin so I can get everything positioned where I want it, so for now, that works, but I would like to try and get to the bottom of this for the future.

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Try
    -using the latest version of WAMP (minimum requirements).
    -uploading and activating your theme on an online WordPress install and test if “Post thumbnails” are working. Sometimes there are discrepancies between a local and an online site.

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