WordPress admin not showing Featured Image option

— Posted inWeb Publishing — 2 min read

Checked just for fun a few free WordPress hosting services and found the common bug: the featured image option is not available in the create post interface.

So far, the best solution was offered at hostinger.com:

“Edit the functions.php File of Your Theme

If you still can’t see the featured image meta box in the content editor or show post thumbnails correctly, your current theme most likely doesn’t support featured images.

In some cases, the code to enable the featured image functionality might be missing. You can solve this by adding the following code to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file via an FTP client or a File Manager:

add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array(
'post',
'page',
'custom-post-type-name',
));

Reload your admin dashboard and clear the website cache to see whether the featured image section appears when editing a post or page”.

Additionally, you may need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open your Post
  2. Click the post settings ICON to collapse the Post Options panel
  3. Refresh your page
  4. Once page refreshes, click the settings ICON to open the post options panel. Give it a second and the Featured Image option should become visible again.

Free lunch is not forever

— Posted inCloud services — 2 min read

Limited number of cloud providers doesn’t offer free accounts at all. Some others give a possibility to become familiar with their service within a limited period, at times they may ask you details of your credit card. Usualle they are a big enough, have large number of customers what allows them to remain stable and profitable.

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Crap software

— Posted inVirus & Antivirus — 1 min read

Junk software! In fact ByteFence IS “Malware, Spyware and Crapware for Free”! I never allowed it on my PC, allthough it came with another piece of software like through a backdoor. And it’s a headache to remove it.

Jake Doe at Ugetfix well described neccesary addtional steps to remove it. In a few words you should complete this uninstallation with regedit as follows:

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No USB, no CD, floppy only

— Posted inOldies — 2 min read

I am still in the same process with Toshiba Tecra A4 (PTA40U-012009) which can’t boot from it’s HDD due to some reason. The device has an OEM license for MS Windows XP Pro. Additionally it can’t boot from internal CD as it’s not working and it’s not able to boot from any USB devices. So everything I have is an external floppy drive.

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How to support Android users remotely. Part 2

— Posted inRemote Access — 2 min read

Even if some tests are unsuccesful and I have to admit that unable to show this or another feature, I am sure the process is worth some time and efforts.

The main idea is to find a solution which is a) free for personal use b) will work for you even on not very new devices. Certainly there are a lot of options which you can use in a corporate environment on a latest devices. But if you just need to troubleshot remotely a particular problem on your mom’s smartphone? It’s a frequent situation today especially in context of the quarantine.

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