Smart Featured Image
Automagically add featured image to posts using images inserted into post content, if no featured image is explicitly added to post.
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·10 active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Smart Featured Image is a WordPress featured image plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Quick Featured Images.
0/5Rating
10active installs
1.6K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
IMPORTANT: This plugin requires PHP version 5.3 or newer. We recommend PHP version 7.0 or newer.
Smart Featured Image is a WordPress plugin to automagically add featured images to posts using images inserted into post content, if no featured image is added to a post.
WordPress, by default, requires you to explicitly set a featured image for each post even if there are images already used in the post.
The Smart Featured Image plugin frees you from the extra step of setting a featured image by saving the first local image it finds in the post content as featured image.
The plugin displays a configurable default image if no image is found in post content.
The default image settings are available via the Media Settings screen (‘Settings‘ -> ‘Media‘) in the WordPress…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
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Changelog
0.2.4
- Release date: 2017-08-29
- Added required PHP version to readme.txt header
- Fixed error: autoloader not found
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