Genesis Featured Image Header
Easily add a featured image to the header of every page on your site including Custom Post Type archive pages.
5(2 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Genesis Featured Image Header is a WordPress header plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
5/52 reviews
200active installs
20K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Featured images are a standard feature in WordPress, but not every Genesis child theme will insert them on your site’s pages.
Even more troublesome, is if you have custom post types with archive pages that you would like to have a featured image set on. These archive pages usually have no option to set a featured image without editing theme files and messing around with complicated code.
This plugin will allow you to set a different banner style image on every page on your site including custom post type archive pages. See the screenshots for an example of what type of header image you can use.
You can set the featured image for a custom post type archive page by clicking “Featured Image” on the admin menu for that post type. Check out the screenshots and FAQs for more i…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.3+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Changelog
1.3
- Updated tested up to WordPress 6.5.2
- Removed deprecated method get_woocommerce_term_meta from genesis-featured-image-header.php
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