[Resolved] Elements header image not displaying on blog page

[Deborah]

I have WordPress 5.2.2, with GeneratePress 2.3 and GP Premium 1.8.3 installed. No caching plugin installed.

I created a page named “News” and set it as the blog page for the site.

Created a separate Element for the blog page, configured the settings to match the other Element I created for pages on the site.

Except I set it up to apply to the blog page only. (The other Element excludes the blog page).

All the settings I added to the blog page Element are working, the name of the page displays, the spacing allowed for the image, except the image behind the page name won’t display.

I confirmed that the featured image is set on the “News” page.

Can you use a header Element on the Blog page? I re-read the Element documentation, but didn’t see anything specifically stating it couldn’t be used.

Any ideas what I’m missing?

[Leo]

Hi there,

You can’t actually upload a featured image for the posts page as WordPress ignore all metaboxes by default on index pages.

Try the Custom Image option instead:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/header-element-overview/#background-image

Let me know if this helps 🙂

[Deborah]

Hi Leo,

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, that worked. Appreciate the info.

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

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