Arefly

<p>Busy with setting every post’s first image to the Featured Image?</p>
<p>Use this plugin instead!</p>
<p>This plugin will auto set the first image of your post (for new posts only) to Featured Image.</p>
<p>If you do not want set the first image, you can still set your own Featured Image.</p>
<h4>How Does It Work?</h4>
<p>You do not need to set anything after you install and no any options.</p>
<p>The plugin will auto set the first image of your new posts to Featured Image.</p>
<h4>How to exclude a specific post?</h4>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Go in to the post/page you do not want to autoset Featured Image.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Find Meta Box name “Custom Field”.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Click “Enter new”.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enter “no_featured_image” in Name Table and enter anything in Value Table.</p>
</li>
</ol>


Autoset Featured Image

I can see how this would be useful, though, but for my purposes and by the name of it, I was hoping it'd go through old posts and, if they didn't have a featured image, set the first image.



Wish it worked for existing posts...

Auto Set the first image of your post to Featured Image.

Dharmesh Patel

firstanonymous

esl4m

Knawat DropShipping

<h3>Featured Image by URL :</h3>
<p>Featured Image by URL allows to use an external URL Images as Featured Image for your post, page & custom post types like WooCommerce Product. Includes support for Product Gallery (WooCommerce). So, using this plugin you can easily set featured image from url.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Set Featured image by URL for all post types including custom post types.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Product Gallery by URLs.</li>
<li>Image from URL for WooCommerce Product variation.</li>
<li>Display Resized Images as per image sizes like “thumbnail”, “medium” or any custom-size</li>
<li>Lightweight & Easy to use</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<ul>
<li>You can contribute to development of the plugin on <a href="https://github.com/Knawat/featured-image-by-url/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</li>
<li>If you have found a bug/issue or have a feature request, then create issue on <a href="https://github.com/Knawat/featured-image-by-url/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</li>
<li>Want to add a new language to Featured Image by URL? Swell! You can contribute via <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-image-by-url" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>.</li>
</ul>


Featured Image by URL

Featured Image by URL allows to use an external URL Images as Featured Image for your post types. Includes support for Product Gallery (WooCommece).

Autoset Featured Image vs Featured Image by URL