Recently, one of our readers asked if it was possible to hide featured images on specific WordPress posts? There can be scenarios when you have a featured image for a post, but instead of removing it you may just want to hide it. In this article, we will show you how to hide featured images on individual posts in WordPress.

Why and When Hiding Featured Images in WordPress is Useful?

Featured image aka post thumbnail is a theme feature in WordPress. This means your WordPress theme controls the display of featured images on your website.

Some users may be using a theme that automatically uses the first post image as a featured image if no featured image was specified. This means that it will still show a featured image even if you don’t set one.

Some users may be a using a plugin to automatically set default featured image.

There are many other cases when you may come across a situation where you will have to hide a featured image.

However, if you just want to follow text-instructions, then you can follow our step by step tutorial on how to how to hide featured images on individual posts in WordPress.

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the Hide Featured Image plugin. It works out of the box, and there are no settings for you to configure.

Simply edit the post where you want to hide the featured image. On the post edit screen, scroll down a little, and you will find the ‘Show/Hide Featured Image’ meta box.

You need to check the box next to ‘Hide Featured Image’ option. You can now save your post and preview it to see the plugin in action.

Notice that even though we left the featured image set in our example, the plugin did its job of hiding it on the website. This plugin does not delete or unset the feature image, it just hides it on the front-end of your website. If you ever want to show the featured image again, simply edit the post and uncheck the hide featured image option.

The plugin also works with custom post types with featured image support.

We hope this article helped you learn how to hide the featured image from individual posts in WordPress.