 <p>I cant really be specific about your template structure (template-part content-title??) but using a generic example the following will display the featured image where available;</p> <p>functions.php</p> <pre><code> if ( ! function_exists( 'mytheme_setup' ) ) : function mytheme_setup() { /* * Enable support for Post Thumbnails on posts and pages. * * See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_theme_support#Post_Thumbnails */ add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); set_post_thumbnail_size( 825, 510, true ); } endif; add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'mytheme_setup' ); </code></pre> <p>your content template page (content.php, template-page, etc..)</p> <pre><code> // WP_Query arguments $args = array ( 'nopaging' =&gt; false, 'posts_per_page' =&gt; '2', 'offset' =&gt; '1', ); // The Query $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); // The Loop if ( $the_query-&gt;have_posts() ) { while ( $the_query-&gt;have_posts() ) { $the_query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt; &lt;article&gt; &lt;?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?&gt; &lt;div class="post-thumbnail"&gt; &lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink(); ?&gt;" title="&lt;?php the_title_attribute(); ?&gt;"&gt; &lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;?php endif; ?&gt; &lt;div class="post-title"&gt; &lt;?php echo '&lt;h2&gt;' . get_the_title() . '&lt;/h2&gt;'; ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/article&gt; &lt;?php } /* Restore original Post Data */ wp_reset_postdata(); } else { // no posts found echo "NADA"; } </code></pre>