Featured Images don't appear, even though the theme supports them. about gutenberg-starter-theme HOT 8 CLOSED

Good catch! My gut says to remove theme support for both of those (for now at least) and keep the focus purely on Gutenberg-related elements, but I'm interested in what everyone else thinks.

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I'd say having featured image support is important for post archives, though for the actual singular post view - not so much. Gutenberg should be handling the entire presentation of the singular post view.

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Agreed with Rich that it is helpful for archives but shouldn't be in single templates.

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This is slightly unrelated but the same is true for custom header image. I don't think it's used on the frontend, just the custom logo. But theme does support it.

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The main issue that comes to mind ( with removing the featured image ) is losing it when displaying post archives, in search, category and taxonomy displays. But, I just found this theme a couple of weeks ago and do not know the overall goals for the theme.

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One of the first things I did when testing this theme was to add featured images, so the fact that they're supported was nice. That said, I love that they're not displaying by default and that the focus is on Gutenberg-related elements.

My instinct is that if you stray from pure Gutenberg elements with anything additional, featured images is the natural addition. If it potentially opens up a can of worms with people requesting other non-Gutenberg items, then bin the featured images and go pure-Gut.

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How can I get featured images to work then? Or to display rather.

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That seems like a reasonable compromise to me. I'll get a PR going next week, unless someone else beats me to it. 👍

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