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I recently had a client who needed some customizations to how the WordPress admin area displayed the input areas. One of these necessary requirements was to have the Featured Image meta box moved to the top of the page, first thing after content entry. It’s some very simple code to add in your functions.php file of your child theme.

//Move Featured Image box //
add_action('do_meta_boxes', 'custom_post_type_image_metabox' );
function custom_post_type_image_metabox() {
	remove_meta_box( 'postimagediv', 'custom_post_type', 'side' );
	add_meta_box('postimagediv', __('Featured Image'), 'post_thumbnail_meta_box', 'custom_post_type', 'side', 'high');
}

Note that where it says “custom_post_type” you need to replace those words with your custom post type.

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