If you want to make featured images required in your posts & pages, then this post is for you. In this tutorial, I am going to share how to make featured image require for posts & pages in WordPress.
Copy the below code and add at the end of your themes/your-theme-folder/functions.php file.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 | add_action('save_post', 'wpds_check_thumbnail'); add_action('admin_notices', 'wpds_thumbnail_error'); function wpds_check_thumbnail($post_id) { // change to any custom post type if(get_post_type($post_id) != 'post') return; if ( !has_post_thumbnail( $post_id ) ) { // set a transient to show the users an admin message set_transient( "has_post_thumbnail", "no" ); // unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely remove_action('save_post', 'wpds_check_thumbnail'); // update the post set it to draft wp_update_post(array('ID' => $post_id, 'post_status' => 'draft')); add_action('save_post', 'wpds_check_thumbnail'); } else { delete_transient( "has_post_thumbnail" ); } } function wpds_thumbnail_error() { // check if the transient is set, and display the error message if ( get_transient( "has_post_thumbnail" ) == "no" ) { echo " <div id="message" class="error"> You must select Featured Image. Your Post is saved but it can not be published. </div> "; delete_transient( "has_post_thumbnail" ); } } |
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