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Batch remove all featured images from your WordPress posts and pages
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| // Place the given PHP code in between <?php and ?> inside your theme’s functions.php file. If there is no ending ?> , it is recommended to place the code at the end part of the file. After you finished placing the code, save and update the functions.php file. You will see that all featured images are gone. Now you can remove the above PHP code from functions.php as it is just a one-time job. Please note that you will not be able to set featured images until you remove the mentioned code. (This code will keep removing them.) | |
| global $wpdb; $wpdb->query( " DELETE FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = '_thumbnail_id' " );?> |
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Place the given PHP code in between inside your theme’s functions.php file. If there is no ending ?> , it is recommended to place the code at the end part of the file. After you finished placing the code, save and update the functions.php file. You will see that all featured images are gone. Now you can remove the above PHP code from functions.php as it is just a one-time job. Please note that you will not be able to set featured images until you remove the mentioned code. (This code will keep removing them.)