Show current page featured image in sidebar

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1. I’m assuming you’re going to be outputting this on a singular page (Post, Page, Attachment)?

   If so, the easiest thing to do is to put your post AND sidebar content inside the Loop, so that you have access to the $post global, and post-related template tags.

   Alternately, you could define a variable, inside the Loop, to hold $post-ID so that you can reference it outside of the Loop, i.e. in your sidebar.

   In either case, inside the Loop, you would have e.g.:

   $post_id = get_the_ID();
   

   Then, in your sidebar:

   if ( has_post_thumbnail( $post_id ) ) {
       the_post_thumbnail( 'sidebar_post_thumbnail' );
   } else {
       // code to output your default image
   }
   

   Note: I’m assuming you’ll create a custom image size to output in the sidebar, e.g.

   add_image_size( 'sidebar_post_thumbnail', 150, 9999, false );
   

   (which goes in functions.php, of course)

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