This plugin adds a featured image column to WordPress Dashboard. It automatically adds a column to any post type which supports a featured image. It's an improvement from the plugin Add Featured Image Column.
- If the post has no featured image, it displays a "No image" svg icon to indicate this.
- If the featured image is broken, it displays a red "Broken image" svg icon to indicate this.
- The plugin opens a lightbox when click on featured image.
- You can enable or disable the blue border on hover.
- You can enable or disable the lightbox feature.
- You can choose the shape and size of the thumbnail displayed at the dashboard.
- WordPress 4.1, tested up to 6.0
- Download the latest tagged archive (choose the "zip" option).
- Go to the Plugins -> Add New screen and click the Upload tab.
- Upload the zipped archive directly.
- Go to the Plugins screen and click Activate.
- Download the latest tagged archive (choose the "zip" option).
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the folder to your
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Go to the Plugins screen and click Activate.
Check out the Codex for more information about installing plugins manually.
Using git, browse to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory and clone this repository:
git clone git@github.com:sanbec/manage-admin-columns.git
Then go to your Plugins screen and click Activate.

Circle, XL, border on hover posts featured images

Square, M, no border on hover posts featured images.

Manage admin columns settings page.
Icons for image broken and no image
It's simple! Just activate, and visit the Settings > Manage Admin Columns to change the default behavior of the plugin.
- Built by Santiago Becerra
- new: If the featured image is broken or invalid, it displays a red icon to indicate this.
- new: Lightbox setting
- improvement: Remove border on hover for noimage placeholders
- improvement: Simpler lightbox effect with tickbox
- new: The image columm opens in a Ligthbox on click
- improvement: Move Image Column after the select checkbox
- improvement: Changed function prefixes to namespaces
- improvement: Convert class into static
- improvement: Better code structure
- improvement: Better code to order columns
- fix: Wrong metadata
- fix: Bad syntax
- new: setting to choose if the image border is shown on hover
- new: svg image for posts with no featured image
- improved: better code
- changed: featured image column no longer loads (duplicate) for WooCommerce products
- improved: output for posts with no featured image
- fixed: featured image column display on mobile
- Improved: any post type which supports featured images (including private post types) will display a featured image column
- Added: the args to get the list of post types has been added to the post types filter
- Changed: admin column heading is just "Image" instead of "Featured Image"
- Added: text_domain, language files
- Fixed (really): featured image column on mobile
- Fixed: featured image column on mobile
- Added: the featured image column is now sortable.
- Due to redundancy, this plugin now deactivates if Display Featured Image for Genesis is active.
- Added filter to exclude post types
- Initial release on WordPress.org
- Initial release on Github
