Aaron Hockley

<p>Featured Image Reminder came about because some forgetful blogger (me) had a site where featured images were important and he kept publishing blog posts without the featured image being prepared.</p>
<p>When the plugin is installed and activated, and you try to publish a post without a featured image, a dialog box will appear asking if you really want to do that.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Inspired by the Publish Confirmation plugin.</li>
<li>Plugin repository banner includes a photo from Flickr user tiff_ku1, used under Creative Commons licensing</li>
</ul>


Featured Image Reminder

Featured Image Reminder will display a confirmation dialog box if you press the Publish button and the post doesn't have a featured image.

Jatinder Pal Singh

<p>This is a simple plugin which is designed to help the posters who some times forget to select the post category and post is published under default category. Once activated, this plugin will force the users to select post category while adding new post to wordpress site. Whenever User tries to publish a post without selecting category, it will give an alert to the user and also highlight the category selection area so that user can see from where to select the post category.<br />
Moreover, If poster hasn’t selected the category while clicking on publish button, it will save the post as draft under default, so no need to worry about loosing the post content in any case due to this plugin.</p>


Force Post Category Selection

Just found this little gem of a plugin. Its so simple to use, literally just install then forget about it. I have two categories, and needed to make sure at least one of them was selected. This did the job perfectly. Thanks!

Install, then forget. A+

This is simple plugin which forces the users to select atleast one category from the list while publishing a new post.

Featured Image Reminder vs Force Post Category Selection