Post featured image column on admin post list page

I have a client site which accepts images from users as posts. For moderation, we are opening each draft post which obviously takes a lot of time if a hefty amount of images are moderated.

So, Is there a way to show featured images of the post on the admin post list page as a column?

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  1. This is what I’m using, cobbled together from snippets found online… It’s uses a filter on manage_posts_colummns to re-jig the headers and an action on manage_posts_custom_column to add the row level data.

    function custom_columns( $columns ) {
        $columns = array(
            'cb' => '<input type="checkbox" />',
            'featured_image' => 'Image',
            'title' => 'Title',
            'comments' => '<span class="vers"><div title="Comments" class="comment-grey-bubble"></div></span>',
            'date' => 'Date'
         );
        return $columns;
    }
    add_filter('manage_posts_columns' , 'custom_columns');
    
    function custom_columns_data( $column, $post_id ) {
        switch ( $column ) {
        case 'featured_image':
            the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' );
            break;
        }
    }
    add_action( 'manage_posts_custom_column' , 'custom_columns_data', 10, 2 ); 
    

    You can also use this on custom post types by filtering on manage_CPTNAME_posts_columns.

  2. Use this hook to add custom column to admin post/page list view.

    add_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'add_img_column');
    add_filter('manage_posts_custom_column', 'manage_img_column', 10, 2);
    
    function add_img_column($columns) {
        $columns['img'] = 'Featured Image';
        return $columns;
    }
    
    function manage_img_column($column_name, $post_id) {
        if( $column_name == 'img' ) {
            echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, 'thumbnail');
        }
        return $column_name;
    }
    

    Put this code in your functions.php

  3. Based on @Mangesh Parte code, you can have featured image at first column, before title.

    add_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'add_img_column');
    add_filter('manage_posts_custom_column', 'manage_img_column', 10, 2);
    
    function add_img_column($columns) {
      $columns = array_slice($columns, 0, 1, true) + array("img" => "Featured Image") + array_slice($columns, 1, count($columns) - 1, true);
      return $columns;
    }
    
    function manage_img_column($column_name, $post_id) {
     if( $column_name == 'img' ) {
      echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, 'thumbnail');
     }
     return $column_name;
    }
    
  4. This code shows how to add the featured image column to a ‘books’ custom post type (CPT). Replace in the first line word ‘books’ with the slug of your custom post type.

    add_filter('manage_books_posts_columns', 'add_img_column');
    add_filter('manage_posts_custom_column', 'manage_img_column', 10, 2);
    function add_img_column($columns) {
        $columns = array_slice($columns, 0, 1, true) + array("img" => "Featured Image") + array_slice($columns, 1, count($columns) - 1, true);
        return $columns;
    }
    
    function manage_img_column($column_name, $post_id) {
        if( $column_name == 'img' ) {
            echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, 'thumbnail');
        }
        return $column_name;
    }
    

    You can find more information here
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/manage_$post_type_posts_custom_column

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