Wordpress post thumbnails (featured image) metabox not appearing in custom post

Question

I've enabled featured images with the following code:

if(function_exists('add_theme_support')){
    add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
    set_post_thumbnail_size(145, 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999, false);
}

and everything works fine except that I can't find the featured image metabox in my custom post editor. Under the "show" menu I only have the number of column and other 2 unrelated options. I'm on the last version of wordpress (3.1, I think?).

Can you help me? I've already tried everything I found on this website and elsewhere.

Thanks in advance.

Found a solution: add the following code as a register_post_types function argument 'supports'=> array('thumbnail') this works but makes the part where you write the actual content disappear. Any help? — Traveling Saleswoman

Traveling Saleswoman Traveling Saleswoman · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23T23:03:10

The correct way to do this is inserting all this code in functions.php

add_theme_support('post-thumbnails', array('events'));

(where events is the name of my custom post, you should use yours)

function create_event() {
    register_post_type( 'events',
         array(
            //...
            'supports' => array('thumbnail', 'title', 'editor')
                    //...
        )
    );

(thumbnail does the trick, but don't forget title and editor if you want to be able to have a title in your post or edit it!)

And last be sure to tick the box called 'thumbnail' - I suppose, my installation is in another language - under screen options (screen options is a button in the upper right corner, Google the name if you can't find it).

Wordpress post thumbnails (featured image) metabox not appearing in custom post

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