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Automatic Featured Image Posts

Automatic Featured Image Posts creates a new post with a Featured Image every time an image is uploaded.

By Jeremy Felt·Media·Free
4.8(12 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 12 years ago
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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.

4.8/512 reviews
300active installs
55K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011

Overview

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:

  • Default Post Status (draft, pending, published, private)
  • Default Post Type
    • Default is the WordPr…
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Ratings & Reviews

4.812 reviews
5 ★
11
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
1
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress3.2.1+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0

  • Confirm compatibility with WordPress 3.7
  • Introduce new action, afip_pre_create_post, to allow actions to occur immediately before inserting a new post for an image.
  • Introduce new filter, afip_continue_new_post. Return false to skip creation of a post for a specific image.
  • General code cleanup.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Jeremy FeltJeremy Felt
Plugin Info
Version
1.0
Last Updated
Nov 2, 2013
WP Requires
3.2.1+
Tested Up To
3.7.41
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
300
Downloads
55K+
Added
Dec 10, 2011
Business
Free

Tags

mediaphotopostspicturesfeatured image

Developer

J
Jeremy Felt
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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