Dynamic Featured Image

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

Author:Ankit Pokhrel (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.8
WordPress version tested:5.6.1
Plugin version:3.7.0
Added to WordPress repository:20-09-2013
Last updated:29-01-2021
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:88
Rated by:57
Plugin URI:http://wordpress.org/plugins/dynamic-featured...
Total downloads:928 121
Active installs:80 000+
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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.

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.

How it works?
1. After successfull plugin activation go to add or edit page of posts or pages and you will notice a box for second featured image.
2. Click Set featured image, select required image from “Dynamic Featured Image – Media Selector” popup and click Set Featured Image.
3. Click on Add New to add new featured image or use Remove link to remove the featured image box.
4. You can then get the images by calling the function $dynamic_featured_image->get_featured_images([$postId (optional)]) in your theme. (Click here for details)
5. The data will be returned in the following format.

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 => ...

Resources
1. Detail Documentation.
2. StackOverflow Tag.

MultiSite Info
You can use Network Activate to activate plugin for all sites on a single install. It is only available on the Network admin site not anywhere else.
Simple Activate 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 Network 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 Github.
Pull requests, issues, and plugin recommendations are more than welcome!

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