Brad Parbs

webdevstudios

Justin Sternberg

pluginize

Gary Kovar

coreymcollins

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="https://pluginize.com/?utm_source=automatic-feat-images&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">Pluginize</a> was launched in 2016 by <a href="https://webdevstudios.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebDevStudios</a> to promote, support, and house all of their <a href="https://pluginize.com/shop/?utm_source=automatic-feat-images&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=wporg" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress products</a>. Pluginize is not only creating new products for WordPress all the time, but also provides <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/" rel="ugc">ongoing support and development for WordPress community favorites like CPTUI</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/" rel="ugc">CMB2</a>, and more.</p>


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.

Sutherland Boswell

<p>Video Thumbnails makes it easy to automatically display video thumbnails in your template. When you publish a post, this plugin will find the first video embedded and retrieve a thumbnail for you. Thumbnails can be saved to your media library and set as a featured image automatically. There’s even support for custom post types and custom fields!</p>
<p><strong>Version 3.0</strong> is on the way soon!</p>
<h4>Video Thumbnails Pro</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> adds new options like maximum image sizes, widescreen cropping, more powerful bulk scanning, a customizable upload directory, and more!</p>
<h4>Supported Sites</h4>
<ul>
<li>YouTube</li>
<li>Vimeo</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Vine</li>
<li>Twitch</li>
<li>Dailymotion</li>
<li>Metacafe</li>
<li>TED</li>
<li>VK</li>
<li>Blip</li>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Funny or Die</li>
<li>CollegeHumor</li>
<li>MPORA</li>
<li>Livestream</li>
<li>Yahoo Screen</li>
<li>Wistia</li>
<li>Youku</li>
<li>Tudou</li>
<li>SAPO</li>
<li>Rutube</li>
</ul>
<p>Video Thumbnails even works with most video plugins, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Refactored Video Importer</a></li>
<li>Viper’s Video Quicktags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Help Translate</h4>
<p><a href="http://translate.refactored.co/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Register on our translation site</a> to help bring Video Thumbnails to more languages.</p>
<h4>Our Other Plugins</h4>
<p><a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-thumbnails" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Thumbnails Pro</a> | <a href="https://refactored.co/plugins/video-importer" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Importer</a> | <a href="http://retinamatic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Retinamatic</a></p>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>In some cases you may have to manually search for thumbnails on the post editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<p>Version 3.0 is being finished up for release soon.</p>


Video Thumbnails

Video Thumbnails simplifies the process of automatically displaying video thumbnails in your WordPress template.

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