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Automatically generate featured images and post thumbnails for your WordPress posts, and pages.

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<p>Smart Auto Featured Image is the most advanced Featured Image generator for WordPress. Create custom templates with the built-in editor and use them directly in your posts. Add dynamic fields such as the post title to automate the image generation process.</p>
<p>Get rid of third party image tools, and simplify your workflow. Featured Images are saved directly to the post being edited !</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O1ENX4vE2hM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>🚀 BUILT-IN TEMPLATE EDITOR</h3>
<p>Create beautiful templates in a similar fashion as you would create an image with Adobe Photoshop.<br />
Build your image using multiple layers. Move, resize, rearrange layers anywhere you like within the canvas.</p>
<p>Use the grid and keyboard keys to make editing a breeze !<br />
* Hold Ctrl: snap to grid<br />
* Hold Alt: resize from center<br />
* Hold Shift: preserve aspect ratio / create at 1:1 ratio</p>
<p>All keys can be used in combination. Ex: Alt + Shift: Resize from center while preserving layer aspect ratio</p>
<h3>📐 AUTOMATE WITH DYNAMIC ELEMENTS</h3>
<p>If you wish to have the post title in your image, you can use a Text layer set as <strong>{{title}}</strong></p>
<h3>🖼️ UNSPLASH IMAGES BROWSER</h3>
<p>Browse from 3M+ HD images and integrate them directly in your designs for free, without attribution required.<br />
No API key required.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://unsplash.com/" title="Unsplash.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress</a></p>
<h3>[PRO] 🖼️⚡️ DYNAMIC IMAGES</h3>
<p>Use dynamic images in your templates to automate even further your featured image generation.</p>
<p>Supported dynamic images :</p>
<ul>
<li>First image from the post content</li>
<li>Author image</li>
<li>Site logo</li>
<li>YouTube thumbnail from embed</li>
<li>ACF image</li>
</ul>
<h3>[PRO] 🖼️ HD IMAGE RENDERING</h3>
<p>High Definition Featured Images contain 4x more pixels to ensure crisp images on high-DPI displays.</p>
<h3>[PRO] 📁 FONT AWESOME 6 FREE ICONS</h3>
<p>Use thousands of free icons in your templates to enhance your designs.</p>
<h3>[PRO] 💬 GOOGLE FONTS SUPPORT</h3>
<p>Create visually attractive texts in your design thanks to the Google fonts collection.</p>
<h3>[PRO] 🔺 SVG SUPPORT</h3>
<p>Integrate vector graphics easily from either SVG files, or with a simple copy/paste of any SVG code.</p>
<h3>[PRO] .WEBP IMAGE FORMAT SUPPORT</h3>
<p>In addition to .JPG & .PNG formats, you can use the modern .WEBP image format which will keep your website fast by minimizing the image file size ! Select image quality between 1-100.</p>
<h3>[PRO] ❔ CONDITIONAL RENDERING</h3>
<p>Create conditional layers in one template that will render differently depending on the actual post content.</p>
<p>For example, if you write articles about pets, you could show a cat icon for the posts of category “cats”, and a dog icon for the posts of category “dogs”, and a paw icon for any other category.</p>
<h3>👨‍💻 Developer friendly</h3>
<p>Smart Auto Featured Image leverages the power of WordPress Hooks.</p>
<p>It provides a wide variety of Actions and Filters that you can hook onto.</p>
<h4>💪 Get Smart Auto Featured Image Pro</h4>
<p>Want to create stunning Featured Images effortlessly ?</p>
<p><a href="https://wpjoli.com/smart-auto-featured-image" rel="nofollow ugc">Go Pro now</a> and start creating professional grade Featured Images !</p>
<ul>
<li>Dozens of Pro templates included</li>
<li>Unlimited layers per template</li>
<li>All design tools available</li>
<li>Conditional layers</li>
<li>HD/HQ Unsplash images</li>
<li>Google fonts available</li>
<li>Rounded corners + Borders</li>
<li>Rotate layers</li>
<li>HD image generation </li>
<li>Select Image quality from 1-100</li>
<li>WEBP image format available </li>
<li>ACF integration</li>
<li>Yoast SEO / RankMath focus keyword integration</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://wpjoli.com/smart-auto-featured-image" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Smart Auto Featured Image Pro now</a></p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3iRSoYepAFE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>CHECK OUR OTHER PLUGINS</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/joli-table-of-contents/" rel="ugc">Joli Table of Contents</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/joli-faq-seo/" rel="ugc">Joli FAQ SEO </a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/joli-clear-lightbox/" rel="ugc">Joli CLEAR Lightbox</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>3rd party services</h3>
<p>This plugin relies on 3rd party services to enable provided features.<br />
driver.js is javascript library, licensed under the MIT license, used for the built-in tutorials of the editor (driverjs.com).<br />
wp-color-picker-alpha is a javascript module that enables transparency setting in the wp-color-picker, it is licensed under the GPLv2 license (github.com/kallookoo/wp-color-picker-alpha)<br />
The freemius sdk is used for license management and for letting users upgrade to pro (freemius.com | terms: freemius.com/terms | privacy policy: freemius.com/privacy).<br />
html2canvas is a javascript library, licensed under the MIT license, used to save template thumbnails and generate images (html2canvas.hertzen.com).</p>


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