Add a Default Featured Image for all posts & pages.
As of April 2026, Default Featured Image is a WordPress image plugin with 70K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 67 reviews. It has been downloaded 541K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are up 7% this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
Add a default featured image to the media settings page. This featured image will show up if no featured image is set. Simple as that.
Take a look at FAQ for the basic questions.
Feel free to contact me on the forum or on the github repository.
Loving this plugin. And when I need to fine tune it, a quick browse through the FAQs and Support Threads and I found everything I needed. Great plugin.
A very handy little plugin that fills an obvious hole in WordPress’s feature list.
Hi Jan-Willem,
I was looking for a default featured image, ChatGPT suggested your plugin. Exactly what I need. Thanks!
Pascal
Thank you, @janwoostendorp, for this great minimalist and out-of-the-box working plugin.
I was looking for a plugin that’d set a default image to posts that don’t have any, and this plugin is doing exactly that—nothing more, nothing less. It’s not creating yet another admin menu bar item with dozens of subpages. It doesn’t annoy you with constant dashboard notices. It doesn’t beg for donations or includes any watermarks.
It just works the way you expect it to work.
It’s a little sad that the bar is this low, but compared to so many other plugins, I think this needs to be pointed out—and reach more people who want a simple solution for a simple problem.
The only feature I’d have liked to see is the support for images that are unavailable and can’t be displayed to also use the default featured image. A quick glance inside the code showed quite a bit of jQuery, which wouldn’t be my first choice, but it made me think that adding a simple checkbox to have it checking for this (non-render blocking, of course) could be a useful idea.
Thanks for your work!
Funziona benissimo! speriamo che non sarà abbandonato
| WordPress | 6.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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