How to add a featured image to your post

A featured image is an image that shows in the top of your post together with the title and follows the post. It is the thumbnail of your post and how it shows is depending on how your theme is set up. To find out if you have this option in your theme, scroll down on the Edit Post page and look for Featured Image, below that heading it says, the set featured image Click this link and the Media Library opens in a new window.

In the new window, you choose and select the image you want to be the featured image for the post or page. When you have selected the imageclick set featured image button and the image you chose appears in the Featured Image Menu.

And this is the end result and how featured image shows in my theme.

Okey, congratulation with adding a featured image to your post, this makes a big difference in the design and makes your post more appealing to your visitors.
In the next and final page in this tutorial, we take a look at how to edit an already inserted image and how we can delete it from our content.