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WP Set Featured Image From Content

Description

Get the first image from the content of a post and set that image as a featured image.

Features

  • Select the (custom) post type for which you want to set the featured images
  • Ability to overwrite existing featured images.

Screenshots

  • The Settings screen.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/wp-set-featured-image-from-content directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Go to Tools -> WP Set Featured Image From Content
  4. Choose your settings and click the button

FAQ

Is the plugin in GIT?

Yup: https://gitlab.com/YourMark/wp-set-featured-image-from-content/

Do you accept Pull Requests

Also yup.

Do you accept feature requests?

Sure, but be patiënt when requesting something.

Reviews

Jawza 22, 2017 7 replies
It does nothing sorry, we have every post with an image in the content at the top but the plugin does not put this as featured image in any post. G.
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Set Featured Image From Content” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0.3

  • Fixed a big that caused entire settings page to turn into a link when succesfully adding a featured image

1.0.2

  • Re-release, to add some missing files.

1.0.1

  • Pick the (custom) post type(s) you want the featured image to be set from.
  • Added overwriting of existing featured image as option.
  • Build in check for theme support of post thumbnails.
  • Made the settings area look a bit nicer.

1.0.0

  • Initial plugin