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.

podpirate

Speed up your workflow by pasting files and image data directly into the WordPress media library.
You can copy files and image data from many desktop applications:
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<li>macOS Finder</li>
<li>Windows Filesystem</li>
<li>Screenshots</li>
<li>Adobe Photoshop</li>
<li>Gimp</li>
<li>LibreOffice</li>
<li>GoogleDocs</li>
<li>Adobe XD</li>
<li>SVG from Adobe XD, Illustrator, Figma and Affinity Designer (Note: An additional plugin for SVG Support is required. My favorite: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/" rel="ugc">Safe SVG</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mcguffin/the-paste#applications-tested-so-far" rel="nofollow ugc">And some more…</a></li>
</ul>
… and paste it to Classic Editor or directly to the media library.
The most recent Desktop versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari are supported.
Install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-svg/" rel="ugc">Safe SVG</a> to enable SVG support.
<a href="https://github.com/mcguffin/the-paste" rel="nofollow ugc">The paste at GitHub</a>
You like it? You can’t stop pasting? <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=F8NKC6TCASUXE" rel="nofollow ugc">Paste some cash with PayPal</a>!
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
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<li>Firefox does not support pasting multiple files from the OS filesystem.</li>
<li>Safari lacks the support to convert images to the webP format.</li>
<li>Pasting in TinyMCE triggers a JavaScript error if <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/real-media-library-lite/" rel="ugc">Real Media Library</a> is active. Pasting in the media library is still working.</li>
<li>Edge is working suspiciously well, which is very unusal in the Microsoft world and must be considered a bug.</li>
</ul>

The Paste

This is a most excellent tool for giving your pasted images useful names, for your later reference and for better SEO. There's one extra step -- you don't simply paste into the editor, you have to tell it you're inserting an image and do your pasting in the media dialog.

It would be better if you could just paste in the editor and were asked for the filename automatically, but this is probably the best we can do via a plugin.

On my "essential" list

Paste files and image data from clipboard and instantly upload them to the WordPress media library.

Default Featured Image Themed vs The Paste