Timeline for How to set featured image to custom post from outside programmatically
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| Jun 2, 2020 at 20:58 | comment | added | cogdog | This definitely worked for me using suggestion by @DonWilson just do not forget to include the 3 media libraries if using on front end form (otherwise media_sideload_image is not found). I needed to copy featured images from one site to a separate multisite via switch_to_blog() | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 22:49 | comment | added | Don Wilson | As of WordPress 4.8 you can set the fourth parameter in media_sideload_image to 'id' and it'll return the new attachment id. Eg: $new_att_id = media_sideload_image($image, $post_id, "image description...", 'id'); if(!is_wp_error($new_att_id)) { set_post_thumbnail($post_id, $new_att_id); } | |
| Jun 28, 2016 at 11:51 | comment | added | er.irfankhan11 | Where I can add this code ? | |
| May 2, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | Omar Tariq | This solution works like a charm (y) | |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 19:39 | history | edited | GhostToast | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 1 characters in body |
| Aug 29, 2013 at 19:33 | history | answered | GhostToast | CC BY-SA 3.0 |