{"id":94377,"date":"2012-08-19T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=94377"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:59:44","slug":"daily-tip-drag-and-drop-to-set-featured-image-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-drag-and-drop-to-set-featured-image-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag and Drop to Set Featured Image in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94379\" title=\"banner-772x250\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/banner-772x2501.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"772\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drag and drop media upload is one of my favorite features of WordPress. However, when you have post thumbnails enabled, it doesn&#8217;t work with the featured image upload.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Drag and Drop Featured Image\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/drag-drop-featured-image\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drag &amp; Drop Featured Image<\/a> is a simple little plugin that does exactly what it says &#8211; it transforms the &#8220;Set featured image&#8221; metabox into a drag and drop zone.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes an options panel where you can select the post types for which you want the drag and drop upload box to be available, as well as limit the allowed file types.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94394\" title=\"options-panel\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/options-panel.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"843\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It works just as the regular upload does to compress all sizes and respect any custom image sizes. You can download the <a title=\"Drag and Drop Featured Image\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/drag-drop-featured-image\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drag &amp; Drop Featured Image<\/a> plugin from the WordPress repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make featured images easier to upload with this new drag and drop plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":94384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,1234],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-94377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-images","tag-thumbnails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216533,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94377\/revisions\/216533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94377"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=94377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}