Featured Image

Add featured image to any part of the website, on each individual post/page. Very Easy to Implement. Provides you with a featured image shortcode [ featured-img ] , code and Featured Image widget.

Paste the Code or the Shortcode on any part of the website.

• Very Easy to implement.
• Simple Shortcode Available
• Easy code Implementation inside loop and outside loop.
• Widge Avaliable
• Featured Image Caption

WordPress Featured Image Documentation By Mervin Praison
SEO Manager

Version history

version 2.2

• Security: Fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-12019)
• Fixed: Added missing global $post in caption function
• Improved: Enhanced security with proper output escaping

version 2.1

• global $post fix

Version 2.0

• Added Featured Image Caption
• Added Alt Text for images
• Fixed Bugs

Version 1.0

• Initial release version.

Step 1

1. Download the zip file
2. Extract the contents
3. Upload the folder featured-image to your WP plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/ directory
4. Go to Plugins > Plugins, and activate the plugin

Step 2

• Use this shortcode ‘[featured-img]’ on your page/post content.
• Use this shortcode ‘[featured-img-caption]’ on your page/post content for caption
• Use this Code on your template inside loop:

1. 

   Featured Image area

version 2.2

• Security: Fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in image alt text and URLs (CVE-2025-12019)
• Security: Added proper output escaping using esc_url() and esc_attr()
• Security: Added wp_kses_post() sanitization for caption output
• Fixed: Added missing global $post declaration in caption function
• Fixed: Improved error handling in caption function
• Improved: Code formatting and WordPress coding standards compliance

version 2.1

• global $post fix

Version 2.0

• Added Featured Image Caption
• Added Alt Text for images
• Fixed Bugs

Version 1.0

• First release.= 2.2 =

• Security: Fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in image metadata (CVE-2025-12019)

• Security: Added esc_url() for image URLs
• Security: Added esc_attr() for alt text attributes
• Security: Added wp_kses_post() for caption sanitization
• Fixed: Missing global $post declaration in getting_featured_img_caption()
• Fixed: Improved error handling to prevent PHP warnings
• Improved: Code refactored to use sprintf() for better readability
• Improved: WordPress coding standards compliance

2.1

• global $post fix

2.0

• Added Featured Image Caption
• Fixed Bugs

1.0

• Shortcode was created
• Code inside loop of the template
• Widget was created