Brad Parbs

webdevstudios

Justin Sternberg

pluginize

Gary Kovar

coreymcollins

When placing a YouTube or Vimeo video within the first 4000 characters of a post, the thumbnail of that video will automatically be uploaded and set as the featured image for the post as long as the post does not already have a set featured image.
In addition, after setting the video thumbnail as the featured image, an “is_video” post meta field is updated to allow for the use of conditional statements within your loop.
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Automatic Featured Images from Videos

Tried this a bunch of times and it doesnt work. No errors or warnings, it just never sets the featured image

No longer works

An essential part of our Wordpress website. Saved hours of work. Thanks very much.

Just cool

If a YouTube or Vimeo video embed exists near the start of a post, we'll automatically set the post's featured image to a thumbnail of the video.

GrottoPress

N Atta Kusi Adusei

IMPORTANT: This plugin requires PHP version 5.3 or newer. We recommend PHP version 7.0 or newer.
Smart Featured Image is a WordPress plugin to automagically add featured images to posts using images inserted into post content, if no featured image is added to a post.
WordPress, by default, requires you to explicitly set a featured image for each post even if there are images already used in the post.
The Smart Featured Image plugin frees you from the extra step of setting a featured image by saving the first local image it finds in the post content as featured image.
The plugin displays a configurable default image if no image is found in post content.
The default image settings are available via the Media Settings screen (‘Settings‘ -> ‘Media‘) in the WordPress administration area. There are options to set the default featured image for each public post type.
Smart Featured Image works by:
<ol>
<li>Checking if a featured image was added to the post.</li>
<li>If no featured image was added, the plugin looks for images attached to the post (ie images uploaded to the current post). If found, the first attached image is saved as the post’s featured image.</li>
<li>If no image was attached to the post, the plugin looks for an image inserted into the post content, but not necessary attached to the post. If found, the first local image inserted is saved as featured image.</li>
<li>If all of the above fail, the plugin falls back to the default featured image set for the post type in question under the Default Featured Image section of the Media Settings screen.</li>
</ol>
You would notice that, in step 4 above, the plugin does not save the default featured image as the featured image. Rather, it simply returns that image whenever a call to get the post thumbnail is made. This is the intended behaviour.
This means, any time the default featured image changes, all posts that used the previous default featured image would automatically use the new default featured image since the old one was never saved to the database as featured image.
You can disable smart featured image for any specific post by setting a <code>no_sfi</code> custom field to any value other than <code>0</code>. Delete the custom field, or set to <code>0</code>, to restore plugin functionality for that post.
Give Smart Featured Image a shot. You will love it.

Smart Featured Image

Automagically add featured image to posts using images inserted into post content, if no featured image is explicitly added to post.

Automatic Featured Images from Videos vs Smart Featured Image