Kay Joe

Important Aspects
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<li>The default featured image will show exactly how your theme shows it. That is if it appears besides the excerpt it will show there. It will not show on top of the excerpt or misaligned, as this plugin only changes the image and does not add any html attributes.</li>
<li>This simple plugin sets an image that has been already uploaded in the WordPress Media Library as the default Featured Image for all posts that do not have a featured image already set.</li>
<li>This plugin can also remove or unset an image that exists in media library and is set as featured image for one or more posts. This is the remove default featured image feature.</li>
<li>Your theme must already support post thumbnails for this plugin to work. This plugin will show the default featured image you set in same style and position as shown by your active theme. Only the image will be changed</li>
<li>If you are using a cache plugin, try disabling it and clear browser cache to see results. You can always go to a post and see whether the featured image has been set or unset.</li>
<li>Please deactivate any other featured image plugin before using this plugin. Also, if you have modified the code in your theme files to show a default featured image then please delete that code, else plugin will have problems</li>
<li>The following steps are recommended but not necessary.These may be required to set the size for the default featured image.
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<li>To Set a default featured image for a post, check the size of the featured image that your theme is showing. This can be dome by right click on the image->Choose view Image OR copy its link or address and open in new browser. Right click on the image and see its dimensions in image information.</li>
<li>If your theme’s functions.php file uses the add_image_size function and the size of the image uploaded to media library to be used as default featured image, is higher than the max size set for thumbnail by any of the _add_image_size_then the selected image to be set as default image will be resized and saved as a new image with size as the maximum size set to be used as thumbnail (not single post) by those functions.</li>
<li>It is recommended that the Settings of the small thumbnail in the Settings-Media and the size set by add_image size be kept same
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<li>After that please resize the image to be set as default featured to the smaller size (to optimize page load time) or resized exactly as the dimensions of smallest size in Settings->Media as set by the add_image_size function</li>
<li>Then uploaded the image to the media library and set it as default featured image using this plugin</li>
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<h4>Suggestions are welcome</h4>
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<li>Found a bug?</li>
<li>Something to be improved?</li>
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Contact me @kayjoe on WordPress.org or ano[dot]shani[at]gmail[dot]com

Default Featured Image Themed

Set an uploaded image as a default featured image for all posts without a featured image. Remove an image set as featured image for one or more posts.

Jan-Willem

Add a default featured image to the media settings page. This featured image will show up if no featured image is set. Simple as that.
Take a look at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/default-featured-image/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> for the basic questions. 
Feel free to contact me <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/default-featured-image/" rel="ugc">on the forum</a> or on the <a href="https://github.com/janw-me/default-featured-image" rel="nofollow ugc">github repository</a>.

Default Featured Image


Great plugin that does exactly what it claims to do. I have a client site that is using Elementor and it doesn't allow you to specify a default image on the Blog Archive. This plugin resolved that issue, allowing you to specify a default Featured Image. Thanks for creating such a useful plugin 👍👍


Does exactly what it says


If you use a thumbnail block within a query block in full site editing, you can use this plugin to set an image if no thumbnail is registered.The setup is easy and straightforward, and the code is simple and nice.


The setup is easy and straightforward, and the code is simple and nice.


Thank you, @janwoostendorp, for this great minimalist and out-of-the-box working plugin.



I was looking for a plugin that'd set a default image to posts that don't have any, and this plugin is doing exactly that—nothing more, nothing less. It's not creating yet another admin menu bar item with dozens of subpages. It doesn't annoy you with constant dashboard notices. It doesn't beg for donations or includes any watermarks.



It just works the way you expect it to work.



It's a little sad that the bar is this low, but compared to so many other plugins, I think this needs to be pointed out—and reach more people who want a simple solution for a simple problem.



The only feature I'd have liked to see is the support for images that are unavailable and can't be displayed to also use the default featured image. A quick glance inside the code showed quite a bit of jQuery, which wouldn't be my first choice, but it made me think that adding a simple checkbox to have it checking for this (non-render blocking, of course) could be a useful idea.



Thanks for your work!


This is how a WordPress plugin should be!

Add a Default Featured Image for all posts & pages.

Default Featured Image Themed vs Default Featured Image