[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13522: Add 'description' setting for thumbnails/featured image and show that text in metabox

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#13522: Add 'description' setting for thumbnails/featured image and show that text
in metabox
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 Reporter:  jeremyclarke             |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Post Thumbnails          |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch ux-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by flixos90):

 Replying to [comment:3 DrewAPicture]:
 > That said, this seems quite edge-case, as, unlike sidebars, there's only
 one featured image metabox. Also, it's currently possible to simply inject
 your own description by prepending content via the
 `admin_post_thumbnail_html` filter added in 2.9.

 I agree that having this filter should be sufficient for this cause. A
 custom description inside the Featured Image metabox could easily bloat up
 the metabox, so I don't think we should encourage it by adding an
 additional parameter to `set_post_thumbnail_size()` or by doing something
 like `add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails-description' )` (any theme
 author can still use the above filter if they wanted to add a descriptive
 text).

 However, we might think about inserting an additional paragraph into the
 "Help" tab of the post editor (only for post types with featured image
 support) to describe what a featured image is.

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