Autoset Featured Image
Auto Set the first image of your post to Featured Image.
4.2(12 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Autoset Featured Image is a WordPress featured image plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 53K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 41% this week. Top alternative: Quick Featured Images.
4.2/512 reviews
1.0K+active installs
53K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Busy with setting every post’s first image to the Featured Image?
Use this plugin instead!
This plugin will auto set the first image of your post (for new posts only) to Featured Image.
If you do not want set the first image, you can still set your own Featured Image.
How Does It Work?
You do not need to set anything after you install and no any options.
The plugin will auto set the first image of your new posts to Featured Image.
How to exclude a specific post?
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Go in to the post/page you do not want to autoset Featured Image.
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Find Meta Box name “Custom Field”.
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Click “Enter new”.
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Enter “no_featured_image” in Name Table and enter anything in Value Table.
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Clean, fast plugin that does exactly what it says :)
by Cris·9 years ago
This plugin works perfectly for all newly created posts as it describes.
Thanks for this little plugin!
Doesn't work anymore!
by john smith·10 years ago
This plugin was last updated 2 years ago, and it doesn’t work anymore.
Just tested it with my WordPress install, version 4.4! Nothing happens.
I recommend using “WP Autoset Featured Image Plus”:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-autoset-featured-image-plus/
Does exactly the same thing and works perfectly!
Wish it worked for existing posts…
by Clicknathan·10 years ago
I can see how this would be useful, though, but for my purposes and by the name of it, I was hoping it’d go through old posts and, if they didn’t have a featured image, set the first image.
Love it but just works for newly uploaded images
by sara cannon·11 years ago
I love this concept!! but I would love to see it work when I select an image already in the media gallery.
Does not work right
by khzidan·11 years ago
chooses random photos for some blogs and did not choose any for others! very random and disappointing…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
100.0%
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Changelog
Version 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
- Fix Bug of exclude the specific post from autoset.
Version 1.2
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Now you can exclude the specific post from autoset!
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Fix Bugs.
Version 1.1.2
- Fix Bugs.
Version 1.1.1
- Fix Bug of
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Contributors
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