Title: Featured Image Bulk Set Plugin
Author: Nick Leghorn
Published: <strong>January 26, 2021</strong>
Last modified: June 3, 2022

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Featured Image Bulk Set Plugin

 By [Nick Leghorn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kc2qcy/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-image-bulk-set.1.5.4.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-bulk-set/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-bulk-set/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin adds a section to your Settings menu in the wp-admin section. Through
that section you can perform two tasks:

 * A scripted, one-time action updating all of the posts in your blog that do not
   have a featured image where the script will either try to find a suitable image
   to use or use one you have provided and configure it for you.
 * An ongoing, continuous monitoring for posts that do not have a featured image,
   using the same logic to try and find a suitable featured image and setting that
   for the post.

You can find additional documentation for this plugin on the author’s blog [blog.nickleghorn.com](https://blog.nickleghorn.com/2021/01/25/adding-a-featured-image-to-all-posts-in-wordpress-in-one-easy-click/)

Special thanks to Robert Farago for giving me yet another massive site without any
Featured Images to clean up for the impetus to finally make this available.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Featured Image Bulk Set Plugin” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Nick Leghorn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kc2qcy/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-bulk-set/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-image-bulk-set/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-image-bulk-set/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.5.4

 * Testing for WP 6.0

#### 1.5.2

 * Fixed an issue where output was not being presented correctly to the end user.

#### 1.5.1

 * Update readme

#### 1.5

 * Tested stable release of changes in 1.4.1 and 1.4.2

#### 1.4.2

 * Fixed a bug that would cause no posts to be returned from the query of the post
   DB

#### 1.4.1

 * Added the ability to exclude drafts in posts that get featured images

#### 1.4

 * Moved post checking items into their own function
 * Added configurable options to the script
 * Added the ability to automatically have every post update with a featured image,
   checked every time the page is loaded

#### 1.3

 * Added unique identifier to function name

#### 1.2

 * Added input sanitization and output escaping as per the WordPress plugin security
   standards

#### 1.1

 * Connected the image override function
 * Moved image validation to a seperate function, and validate that image is actually
   an image before assigning

#### 1.0

 * First version!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5.4**
 *  Last updated **4 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.0.11**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-bulk-set/)
 * Tags
 * [featured image](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-image/)[utilities](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/utilities/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-bulk-set/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Nick Leghorn ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kc2qcy/)

## Support

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