Christian Foellmann

Ankit Pokhrel

Dynamically adds multiple featured image or multiple post thumbnail functionality to your page, posts and custom post types. This plugin provides you an interface to add any number of featured image as you want without writing a single line of code. These featured images can then be collected by the various theme functions.
Overview
Dynamic Featured Image enables the option to have MULTIPLE featured images within a post or page. 
This is especially helpful when you use other plugins, post thumbnails or sliders that use featured images. 
Why limit yourself to only one featured image if you can do some awesome stuffs with multiple featured image? 
DFI allows you to add different number of featured images to each post and page that can be collected by the various theme functions.
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A NOTE ABOUT SUPPORT: We’re here to help troubleshoot bugs, but please don’t set expectations early as the support forums at WordPress.org are only checked once in a while.
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How it works? 
1. After successfull plugin activation go to <code>add</code> or <code>edit</code> page of posts or pages and you will notice a box for second featured image. 
2. Click <code>Set featured image</code>, select required image from “Dynamic Featured Image – Media Selector” popup and click <code>Set Featured Image</code>. 
3. Click on <code>Add New</code> to add new featured image or use <code>Remove</code> link to remove the featured image box. 
4. You can then get the images by calling the function <code>$dynamic_featured_image->get_featured_images([$postId (optional)])</code> in your theme. (<a href="https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/Dynamic-Featured-Image/wiki" title="Documentation for current version" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for details</a>) 
5. The data will be returned in the following format.
<pre><code>array
 0 => 
 array
 'thumb' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage.jpg' (length=50)
 'full' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage_fullSize.jpg' (length=69)
 'attachment_id' => string '197' (length=3)
 1 => 
 array
 'thumb' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage.jpg' (length=50)
 'full' => string 'http://your_site/upload_path/yourSelectedImage_fullSize.jpg' (length=69)
 'attachment_id' => string '198' (length=3)
 2 => ...
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Resources 
1. <a href="https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/Dynamic-Featured-Image/wiki" title="Documentation for current ver." rel="nofollow ugc">Detail Documentation</a>. 
2. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dynamic-featured-image" title="StackOverflow Tag" rel="nofollow ugc">StackOverflow Tag</a>.
MultiSite Info 
You can use <code>Network Activate</code> to activate plugin for all sites on a single install. It is only available on the Network admin site not anywhere else. 
Simple <code>Activate</code> activates for the site you are currently on. These will be permitted to be activated or deactivated on ANY blog.
While deleting the plugin from the <code>Network</code> be sure that the plugin is deactive in all installation of your WordPress network.
Contribute 
If you’d like to check out the code and contribute, join us on <a href="https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/Dynamic-Featured-Image" title="View this plugin in github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. 
Pull requests, issues, and plugin recommendations are more than welcome!

Dynamic Featured Image

Works fine!

Dynamically adds multiple featured image (post thumbnail) functionality to posts, pages and custom post types.

Marcus Kober

You need more than one featured image for posts, pages and/or custom post types? Then this plugin is for you!
Enable multiple featured images for all post types (including custom post types and WooCommerce products) and show the images with a widget or the handy shortcode.
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Add as many featured images as you need.
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Add the featured images to any post type (post, page or even custom post types and WooCommerce products).
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It is possible to use different featured images for different post types. Easily you can add two new featured images to pages and three to posts, if you need it that way.
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Fully customizable output – so it’s multilingual.
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Handy shortcode for displaying the featured images everywhere.
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Widget for displaying featured images in sidebars, etc.
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<h4>History</h4>
For one of my customers I had to assign two featured images to pages. One featured image was used as the header image and the other as a small button for the submenu. The images had to be different too (so I couldn’t simply use different images sizes) and so I wrote this little plugin.
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IMPORTANT NOTE TO THOSE UPDATING FROM 0.3: The Plugin comes with a new method for registering featured images and updates the post meta key. It is fully backwards compatible, but if you are calling the post metas directly then please update your code accordingly. The new format of the post meta key is kdmfi_YOUR_ID.
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<h4>Contribute</h4>
Feel free to ask if you have problems with this plugin. But please keep in mind, that this plugin is developed in the author’s spare time – so it may take some time to answer. 
Feature requests are welcome too!

Multiple Featured Images

I have been using this for years.  I can't even begin to count how many times I've been handed a design for a theme to build where the designer had a thumbnail for one gallery, then a totally different type of thumbnail for some other section of the site.  Nothing flashy here, just the perfect tool for the job.

This plugin makes adding extra featured image types a breeze.  It's a tool for developers, tho and not a simple plug-n-play solution. It doesn't simply add a second thumbnail to your posts, it does require some really lite code tinkering, so if you're not comfortable monkeying around in the functions file(s), this won't solve the problem for you.

A great tool for custom theme developers

Hi,

This is my first review, this plugin made me review it because it is so awesome.

Makes life easier. Thank you :)

Amazing plugin

Enables multiple featured images for all post types (including custom post types and WooCommerce products). Comes with a widget and a handy shortcode  …

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