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.

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<p><strong>Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/ultimate-posts-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget</a>.</strong><br />
(this trick works for all plugins in the WP repo – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the URL)</p>
<p>UPDATE: Plugin ownership changed for this plugin. We are currently evaluating possible enhancements for it. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestions yourself, please let us know in the Support Forum.</p>
<p>Note: This is a <strong>classic widget</strong> type, in order for it to work on the latest version of WordPress you will need <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/" rel="ugc">Classic Widgets</a> plugin installed on your site.</p>
<p>The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options to customize the display.</p>
<p>Designed for both the average user and developer, Ultimate Posts Widgets aims to provide flexibility and ease of use for displaying any kinds of posts within your widget areas. An array of widget options are available as well as hooks, filters and custom templates for more advanced customization.</p>
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Filter by categories</li>
<li>Filter by current category</li>
<li>Filter by tags</li>
<li>Filter by current tag</li>
<li>Filter by custom post types</li>
<li>Filter by sticky posts</li>
<li>Select number of posts to display</li>
<li>Display title</li>
<li>Display publish date/time with custom format options</li>
<li>Display post author and link</li>
<li>Display post comment count</li>
<li>Display excerpt or full content</li>
<li>Display read more link with custom label</li>
<li>Display featured image and at any size</li>
<li>Display post categories</li>
<li>Display post tags</li>
<li>Display custom fields</li>
<li>Add text or HTML before and after posts list</li>
<li>Add CSS class to widget</li>
<li>Add widget title link</li>
<li>Change excerpt length (in words)</li>
<li>Order by date, title, number of comments, random or a custom field</li>
<li>Exclude current post from the list</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ tab</a> for documentation on custom templates, hooks, common issues, and more.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>For help please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-posts-widget/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></p>
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Ultimate Posts Widget

The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.

Autoset Featured Image vs Ultimate Posts Widget