Arefly

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

Christiaan Conover

Featured Image Caption makes it simple to show a caption with the featured image of a post or page. It works seamlessly with most themes, with no coding required. If you like to mess about in the code, it supports that too.

Featured Image Caption

Easily add and display a caption for the featured image of a post.

Autoset Featured Image vs Featured Image Caption