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WordPress Tip: Change default thumbnail size for Featured Image

Here’s a quick little tip that took me a long time to figure out.

Within WordPress, multiple sizes of images can be created when a photo is uploaded, such as thumbnail, medium and large. This is controlled in the Settings/Media. However, none of these settings control the size of the thumbnail for a Featured Image. This is actually defined in the functions.php file of your theme.