I currently have a custom theme with some images in a separate image folder and I pull them into the frontend with the echo get_theme_file_uri('/img/image-name.jpg') which works as expected.

I would like to be able to add images from the media library, I know I can do this with the_post_thumbnail(), but this obviously pulls in the post thumbnail relating to a post, whereas I've designed a page that uses 4 different images.

Is there a template tag that pulls in an image out of the media library onto a page where I can use the image's ID, so you get the benefits the_post_thumbnail() brings in terms of sizing images etc ?

Any help would be amazing.

I currently have a custom theme with some images in a separate image folder and I pull them into the frontend with the echo get_theme_file_uri('/img/image-name.jpg') which works as expected.

I would like to be able to add images from the media library, I know I can do this with the_post_thumbnail(), but this obviously pulls in the post thumbnail relating to a post, whereas I've designed a page that uses 4 different images.

Is there a template tag that pulls in an image out of the media library onto a page where I can use the image's ID, so you get the benefits the_post_thumbnail() brings in terms of sizing images etc ?

Any help would be amazing.

• images
• page-template

1 Answer 1

The equivalent function for arbitrary images that aren't the post thumbnail is wp_get_attachment_image(). It works similarly, but you need to pass the attachment ID, and there's an $icon argument that doesn't really do much:

echo wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment_id, 'large', false, [] );