Where Does the Featured Image Showing Up in WordPress?

An image appearing in a WordPress post or page can be attributed to one of several sources.

The image may have been uploaded by the author of the post or page, or it may have been automatically generated by WordPress. In either case, the source of the image is indicated by the URL in the image’s source attribute.

For example, the image shown in the post “5 WordPress Themes That Look Like Instagram Photos” was automatically generated by WordPress to show the theme options for the Instagram theme, which is owned by Instagram.com. The URL in the source attribute is “https://www.

instagram.com/p/BUILDk-L1hGOD/”.

The image shown in the post “5 WordPress Themes That Look Like Instagram Photos” was uploaded by the author of the post, which is indicated by the URL in the image’s src attribute. The image’s source is “https://www.michaelwest.co.

uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-instagram-theme-options.jpg”.