Automatic Featured Image Posts creates a new post with a Featured Image every time an image is uploaded.
As of April 2026, Automatic Featured Image Posts is a WordPress media plugin with 300 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 55K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
Automatic Featured Image Posts creates a new post with a Featured Image every time an image is uploaded. Through the plugin settings page, you can set the image to publish and assign itself to one of your other existing custom post types and/or post formats.
The imagined use case is to make managing a large number of photos through WordPress a little more interesting and a little more fun.
After uploading 10, 100, or 1000 pictures from an event or vacation, you and other users can go through and spend the majority of your time adding content, tags, and titles to your photographs rather than going through a monotonous process creating new posts over and over again.
Settings are available for:
| WordPress | 3.2.1+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
afip_pre_create_post, to allow actions to occur immediately before inserting a new post for an image.afip_continue_new_post. Return false to skip creation of a post for a specific image.Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.