Enrico Sorcinelli

<p>Feature Image Extended extends featured image functionality allowing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hiding featured image in your themes for all post types.</li>
<li>Adding link to the featured image.</li>
<li>Adding thumbnail featured image in administration screens listing.</li>
<li>Featured image quick-editing.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Once the plugin is installed you can control settings in the following ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>Programmatically by using <code>featured_image_extended_settings</code> filter (see below).</li>
<li>Using the <em>Settings->Featured Image Extended</em> administration screen.</li>
</ul>
<p>If your theme uses a different call other than <code>the_post_thumbnail()</code>/<code>get_the_post_thumbnail()</code> in order to get the featured image, this plugin might not work.<br />
So, in order to get extended featured image settings and apply to your pages, you should use <code>featured_image_extended()</code> (see below).</p>
<h3>API</h3>
<p><strong><code>featured_image_extended( integer $post_id = null )</code></strong></p>
<p>It returns an array containing featured image extended information of <code>$post_id</code> post (or current post if you don’t supply an argument) like following:</p>
<pre><code>array(
    'show'   => true,
    'url'    => 'https://myurl.com',
    'target' => '_blank',
    'title'  => 'Image title',
)
</code></pre>
<h4>Hooks</h4>
<p><strong><code>featured_image_extended_settings</code></strong></p>
<p>Filter plugin settings values.</p>
<pre><code>apply_filters( 'featured_image_extended_settings', array $settings )
</code></pre>
<p><strong><code>featured_image_extended_admin_settings</code></strong></p>
<p>Filter allowing to display or not the plugin settings page in the administration.</p>
<pre><code>apply_filters( 'featured_image_extended_admin_settings', boolean $display )
</code></pre>


Featured Image Extended

Feature Image Extended extends featured image builtin functionality.

finnj

<p>Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>If no Featured Images is set on save, the plugin will:
<ul>
<li>Select the first image that is uploaded to the post, and set it as Featured Image</li>
<li>If still no Featured Image, select the first image from the post content, and set it as Featured Image</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The will work both from admin interface & frontend.</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: Only images from the media library can be used as featured images (as per WordPress standard).</p>
<h4>Frontier plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-post/" rel="ugc">Frontier Post</a>  – Complete frontend management of posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-query/" rel="ugc">Frontier Query</a>  – Display lists and groupings of posts in post/pages and widgets.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-buttons/" rel="ugc">Frontier Buttons</a>  – Full control of tinymce toolbars and buttons buttons</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-set-featured/" rel="ugc">Frontier Set Featured </a>  – Set featured image aut. based on post images </li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-restrict-media/" rel="ugc">Frontier Restrict Media </a>  – Restrict media access to users own media</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-restrict-backend/" rel="ugc">Frontier Restrict Backend </a>  – Restrict access to the backend (wp-admin)</li>
</ul>


Frontier Set Featured

Frontier Set Featured will set featured image from images in the post if no featured image is set by the user.

Featured Image Extended vs Frontier Set Featured