So I’m trying to find a way to turn off the featured image on a post. Why? Because I’m embedding a YT video and want the Featured image to be a screenshot of the YT video, so that on the home page and any other list/feed-views a video post’s featured image looks like a video, from a user-centered UX point of view this is more legible and clear, that there are different types of content.
In the Source theme the featured image can’t be turned off on a post, so you end up with this redundant UX, example:
I could use a still from the video as a featured image, but then in my feeds of posts it looks the same as any other type of post. Unless I made some custom featured image graphic that I just use for videos, which would still look weird/uncessary to have a giant featured image above a video.
Or, I could not use a featured image, and then my post would be boring text-only in the feed list views on the home page and elsewhere. Also not good for inherently visual creative like videos.
I asked Ghost Pro Support about this and they added this request to the internal ideas list. And they said other themes have this ability to turn a featured image off on a post (but not on other views), but didn’t know what themes have this.
I’m sure there are many with this basic need. And it’s duanting having to hunt around trying one theme after another to see if this exists in any free or paid theme.
I searched for examples.
https://www.thenousnetwork.com/ …has what I want. But the images are all jpg not wepb.
Does anyone here know about themes that suppport this, and support/save all their images as webp?
Or, alternately, are there any themes where I can make a YT embed be the featured image? That might even be better.
Would love to see Ghost more catering to video creators, youtubers, etc. even though the origin of Ghost was biased to text/writers needs, so many of us are both/multimedia creators. Every serious Youtuber needs to have and own an email list, so there’s a business case to look at for better support in the core.