Alternatives to Simple Featured Posts Widget

Simple Featured Posts is a pratical widget that allows you to show a post list with thumbnails ordered by random or recent posts.

Snapshot
Rating: 5.0/5 (1 reviews)
Downloads: 21,579
Active installs: 300
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.3
Tested up to: 3.9.40
Requires PHP: f

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Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
Use remote media as the featured image and beyond.
(262)
Updated 285d ago
70,000 installs7,227,236 downloads49/100 • Stale
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages
Easily control whether the featured image appears in the single post or page view (doesn't hide it in archive/list view).
(38)
Updated 196d ago
30,000 installs446,115 downloads44/100 • Stale
Post Thumbnail Editor
Post Thumbnail Editor
Fed up with the lack of automated tools to properly crop and scale post thumbnails? Maybe this plugin can help.
(63)
Updated 3752d ago
30,000 installs392,617 downloads16/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Image Admin Thumb
Featured Image Admin Thumb
Adds inline thumbnail image to admin columns on Post/post types view (where supported). Click to easily set/change the featured image.
(40)
Updated 567d ago
20,000 installs205,947 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
Hide Featured Image
Hide Featured Image
To Hide Featured Image on single post/page.
(81)
Updated 3092d ago
10,000 installs271,493 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Featured Video Plus
Featured Video Plus
Add Featured Videos to your posts and pages. Works like magic with most themes which use Featured Images. Local Media, YouTube, Vimeo and many more.
(80)
Updated 3274d ago
10,000 installs316,104 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Daddy Plus
Daddy Plus
Daddy Plus is a useful plugin for WordPress theme by Themes Daddy.
(0)
Updated 262d ago
9,000 installs115,897 downloads38/100 • Stale
Generate Images (AI) – Magic Post Thumbnail
Generate Images (AI) – Magic Post Thumbnail
Get images for your posts with automatic generation & multiple banks. Generate as featured images or in your content with Gutenberg Block and in bulk
(25)
Updated 227d ago
6,000 installs477,039 downloads34/100 • Stale
A WP Life Companion
A WP Life Companion
A WP Life Companion is a useful plugin for awpbusinesspress WordPress theme by awordpresslife.
(0)
Updated 160d ago
6,000 installs190,976 downloads50/100 • Maintained
Really Simple Featured Video – Featured Video Support for Posts, Pages & WooCommerce Products
Really Simple Featured Video – Featured Video Support for Posts, Pages & WooCommerce Products
Really Simple Featured Video enables featured video support for WordPress posts, pages, CPTs (with featured images) & WooCommerce Products.
(34)
Updated 200d ago
5,000 installs118,714 downloads34/100 • Stale
NS Featured Posts
NS Featured Posts
A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
(29)
Updated 430d ago
4,000 installs115,192 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Hide Show Featured Image
WP Hide Show Featured Image
The plugin provides options to hide featured images from all posts and pages.
(3)
Updated 481d ago
4,000 installs45,622 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
RSS Featured Image
RSS Featured Image
Add the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
(23)
Updated 1130d ago
2,000 installs25,179 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Better REST API Featured Images
Better REST API Featured Images
Adds a top-level field with featured image data including available sizes and URLs to the post object returned by the REST API.
(11)
Updated 3759d ago
2,000 installs61,102 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Featured Video
Post Featured Video
Post Featured Video is a very nifty responsive video plugin that helps your users to see a YouTube or Vimeo video or Custom HTML MP4 video
(6)
Updated 565d ago
900 installs17,470 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Frontier Set Featured
Frontier Set Featured
Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.
(2)
Updated 1312d ago
100 installs9,011 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Image Override
Image Override
Allows you to override WordPress' auto generated thumbnails.
(2)
Updated 4106d ago
20 installs3,443 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post Thumbnail Column
Post Thumbnail Column
Adds a new column to posts list for featured images.
(2)
Updated 4556d ago
10 installs2,352 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Image Caption on Featured
Image Caption on Featured
Image Caption on Featured adds the caption on the featured image.
(0)
Updated 4195d ago
10 installs1,986 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Term Featured Image Fallback
Term Featured Image Fallback
Enables featured images for terms of any category, tag or custom taxonomy and set them as fallback for posts of any post type.
(0)
Updated 3485d ago
0 installs1,466 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned