Limited-Time Offer

Get Extra 20% off on FullCharge Yearly Plan — available for first 10 users only. Don’t miss out! 🚀

Automatic Featured Images from Videos · Version history

Automatic Featured Images from Videos changelog and version history

Latest version
1.2.9
Jul 14, 2026 (4 months ago)
Releases
16
since 2014
In the last year
4
about one every 72 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.0.8
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20141 release
  • 20162 releases
  • 20182 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 20211 release
  • 20232 releases
  • 20242 releases
  • 20253 releases
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.9Latest

    • Updated: confirmed compatibility with WP 7.0
  2. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.8

    • Fixed: reported security vulnerability around bulk processing.

20253 releases

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.7

    • Fixed: more edits around checking for 2 or more items vs 1 item to process
    • Fixed: Fatal error on Comment screen with add_meta_boxes callback.
  2. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.6

    • Fixed: bulk processing if only 0ne post was found needing processing. Originally needed 2 or more
    • Fixed: missed textdomain
    • Bumped required PHP to 7.4
    • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.9
  3. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.5

    • Updated: added nonce verification to bulk processing cron scheduling request.

20242 releases

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.4

    • Fixed: Better file naming of incoming images, based on youtube/video title value.
    • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.6.x
  2. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.3

    • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.5

20232 releases

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.2

    • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4
    • Fixed: PHP notices around video url variables
    • Updated: removed www. from Vimeo endpoints that showed permanent redirect messages.
  2. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.1

    • Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.3

20211 release

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.2.0

    • Added: Support for potentially larger Vimeo images from API response.
    • Fixed: Various PHP notices and errors.
    • Updated: Minimum PHP version.
    • Updated: bumped up default string length to 4000 characters, for URL searching in content.
    • Updated: exclude user profile URLs from Youtube regex.
    • Updated: Switched all endpoints to make sure we’re using HTTPS.
    • Updated: Vimeo endpoint switched to JSON responses.
    • Updated: Plugin description.

20201 release

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.1.2

    • Fixed: Issues with Youtube HEAD request returning 40x errors.

20182 releases

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.1.1

    • Fixed: Extra forward slash in YouTube URLs that was causing 404 errors when trying to add to media library.
  2. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.1.0

    • Added: Metabox that displays the found video URL and embed URL. Values saved as post meta.
    • Added: Pass post ID for the wds_check_if_content_contains_video filter.
    • Added: Filters that allow customization by developers to alter default values.
    • Added: BETA: Bulk processing of posts for those missing thumbnails from videos. Please report issues found.
    • Added: BETA: WP-CLI support.
    • Fixed: Modified the way the vimeo embed URL is returned.
    • Fixed: Prevent multiple instances of same found image from being uploaded to media library.

20162 releases

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.0.3

  2. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.0.2

20141 release

  1. Automatic Featured Images from Videos 1.0.0

Questions about Automatic Featured Images from Videos’s releases

What is the latest version of Automatic Featured Images from Videos?

1.2.9, released on Jul 14, 2026 (3 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.0.8 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Automatic Featured Images from Videos updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 72 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2014.

Know when your rivals ship

Track your plugin and its rivals: TrackWP sees each new release in the nightly snapshot and alerts you, with what it did to their rank.

Start free

Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Automatic Featured Images from Videos’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.