Best featured image plugins for WordPress

Featured Image Reminder

#24,922

by Aaron Hockley10 years ago

Featured Image Reminder will display a confirmation dialog box if you press the Publish button and the post doesn't have a featured image.

Featured Background

Up in the last 7 days:15#25,381

by Schwarttzy1 year ago

Set a featured image as the background for individual posts or pages with advanced options like parallax, overlays, and more.

Genesis Featured Image

Up in the last 7 days:95#25,575

by Ibon Azkoitia8 years ago

This plugin works within the Genesis Framework, and lets you display a featured image.

RSS Image

#25,743

by Web Guy5 months ago

Simply activate this plugin to attach featured images to their respective posts in the site feed.

Emanda

Up in the last 7 days:337#25,803

by Iuri Moura1 year ago

Adds the post’s featured image to the default WordPress RSS feed. Optional Media RSS/enclosure, fallbacks, and emoji cleanup.

Cartograf Featured-image in Feed

Up in the last 7 days:24#26,270

by Jose3 years ago

Includes the featured image of a post at the beginning of the item's content in the WordPress generated feeds. With this plugin, you no longer ne …

Featured Image on Edit.php

Up in the last 7 days:20#26,679

by 水野史土16 years ago

Displays featured images on edit.php.

TL Auto Feature Image

Down in the last 7 days:67#27,403

by Dragoon Apps2 years ago

Automatically set the first uploaded image of a post as the featured image.

WP Thumbnail Column

Down in the last 7 days:2#28,076

by Andrey Ovcharov14 years ago

This plugin adds column with thumbnails for selected post types

JP Latest Posts Shortcode

Up in the last 7 days:107#28,091

by Skjoy11 years ago

This is simple plugin for listing latest posts from your blog.

WP Set Featured Image From Content

Up in the last 7 days:73#28,101

by Mark Jansen10 years ago

Get image from content to set as featured image

GLS RSS Thumbnails

Down in the last 7 days:52#28,170

by GLS Inc.1 year ago

Adds featured images to WordPress RSS feeds. / WordPressのRSSフィードにアイキャッチ画像を追加します。

Auto Bulk Blog Featured Thumbnail Image Generator

Down in the last 7 days:25#28,197

by Sourabh Nagori1 year ago

A powerful yet simple solution to redirect 404 errors and manage custom redirects in WordPress. Generates featured images with post titles on customiz …

Video Thumbnail Auto-Feature

Down in the last 7 days:1,033#28,637

by Jon Dingman14 years ago

Plugin will grab a thumbnail from the video you embedded, download it, then set it as the featured image.

LS

Down in the last 7 days:370#29,042

by lakestylez4 months ago

Generate AI images in WordPress using your own OpenAI/Gemini API keys. Create featured images fast with control over style and ratio.

Smart Auto Featured Image

Down in the last 7 days:35#29,057

by WPJoli25 days ago

Generate Featured Images automatically based on your post content (title, etc). Customize your featured image with the built in template editor.

Velox Featured Image for Elementor

Up in the last 7 days:3,178#29,371

by veloxplugins2 months ago

Use the native WordPress Featured Image anywhere in Elementor: as an image, dynamic background, or flexible hero.

RV Auto Featured Image

Down in the last 7 days:28#29,909

by Mahesh Maharjan6 years ago

Automatically set featured image to the posts/pages the first image from the content if the user forgets to set one. Help user from getting rid of bur …

Easy Stock Featured Image

Up in the last 7 days:142#29,949

by David Angulo4 years ago

Automatically attach stock photos as featured image to your posts without featured image.

Featured Image Bulk Set Plugin

Up in the last 7 days:136#29,968

by Nick Leghorn4 years ago

This is a plugin designed to do one simple job: programatically add a featured image in WordPress to existing posts. Either images already in the post …

Mili Localizer

Down in the last 7 days:289#30,205

by militools7 months ago

Automatically imports external images from post content into the WordPress Media Library and rewrites image URLs.

JMS Rss Feed

Up in the last 7 days:162#30,597

by James8 years ago

Add the featured image tag in your posts RSS feed. For standard RSS feed XML, there is no image tag definition. This plugin will show the post featur …

Cubixsol Multi AI Image Generator

Up in the last 7 days:567#30,624

by Aasim Ghaffar3 months ago

Consolidate 9 premier AI engines and 5 stock libraries into a single, high-performance WordPress workspace.

Mevabi

Up in the last 7 days:2,063#30,630

by Mevabi2 months ago

Search, find and insert free stock photos, royalty-free images and GIFs directly from the WordPress editor. Works with Gutenberg and Classic Editor.

Show Thumbnail Image In Admin Post / Page List

Up in the last 7 days:1,896#31,223

by bjovaar4 years ago

STIAP Plugin for Wordpress that the add column for thumbnail image from post and page in the post / page list in admin area.

Hero for Genesis Framework

Down in the last 7 days:203#31,330

by Jeffrey Carandang11 years ago

Easiest and Powerful way to add header, hero image & content to your Genesis powered sites. Powered by native widget, you can add almost anything!

Burnpedia Image Maker

Up in the last 7 days:26,991#31,390

by Tico8 days ago

Design a Pin for every post without leaving WordPress - a Pinterest pin designer with 130 templates. Free, and no account needed.

LOOS Featured Image Automator

Up in the last 7 days:8,871#31,880

by LOOS3 months ago

Auto-generates a featured image from your post title via the OG Image Maker API, so every post is ready for social sharing without manual work.

WP Featured Image Widget

Up in the last 7 days:93#32,034

by Nanhe Kumar9 years ago

Provides a widget that displays the featured image for a post or page with custom settings.

Dynamic Custom Header Replacement

#32,339

by enteractie9 years ago

Allows the custom header image to be replaced by the featured image of the current post or page.

Waypoint Royalty Free Image Generator

Down in the last 7 days:531#32,499

by waypointsoftwareusa1 month ago

Generate royalty-free images with AI and save them straight to your media library. No stock subscription, no attribution, no API key.

Absolute Thumbnail Column

#32,604

by AbsolutePlugins4 years ago

Absolute Thumbnail column allows you to upload, select and change thumbnail on any post-types right from the post table.

Smart Featured Image

Down in the last 7 days:220#33,022

by GrottoPress9 years ago

Automagically add featured image to posts using images inserted into post content, if no featured image is explicitly added to post.

Hwinote iCatch Editor

Down in the last 7 days:418#33,093

by hwinote26 days ago

Create and edit featured images, Image blocks, and Media Library images in a browser-based WordPress canvas editor.

Random Post Thumbnail

#34,088

by JohnnyPea15 years ago

Easy way to add random featured images to your posts.

Simple Recent Posts Widget

#34,271

by Anshul Gangrade3 months ago

Adds advanced featured image customization with sidebar widgets and multisite support.

Thumbnail Before Content

Down in the last 7 days:759#34,380

by Adam Ainsworth5 years ago

This is a simple plugin that automatically inserts the post thumbnail (featured image) before the post content.

Ultimate Post Thumbnails

#34,419

by Edward9 years ago

The easiest way to add multiple featured images (and lightbox) to WordPress.

Nix Image Optimizer

Down in the last 7 days:2,620#34,764

by nixtool12 days ago

Convert images to WebP with bulk compression, media log, watermarking, image SEO, featured image generation, and unused media cleanup.

Magic Featured Image Generator (AI Generated)

#34,795

by yorksupport4 months ago

Generate a post featured image from the title and excerpt using Cloudflare Workers AI, directly from the editor sidebar.

autometa's THUMB

Up in the last 7 days:11,463#36,189

by JorgeAmVF8 years ago

It reproduces featured images in pages, posts, portfolios or products simply via: [thumb].

Better Post Formats

#36,525

by RGB Lab1 month ago

Real audio, video, gallery, link and quote content in place of featured images, in classic and block themes. Just like any premium WordPress theme.

Post Grid Shortcode

Up in the last 7 days:7,800#37,213

by devnahin1 year ago

A simple and flexible shortcode to display a grid of posts with customizable options.

All-in-One Utilities

Up in the last 7 days:363#37,393

by wordtenance4 days ago

Change usernames, brand the login page, harden and speed up WordPress, log emails and clean up duplicates, all from one lightweight plugin.

Force Featured Image

Up in the last 7 days:7,116#37,405

by Jonathan Bardo11 years ago

Ever wanted to force a user to publish a post with a featured image of a certain dimension? Search no more.

Open Graph Images With Caption

Up in the last 7 days:5,844#37,610

by glashkoff7 years ago

Generate an Open Graph image with custom caption.

Image Gallery Custom Post Type

Up in the last 7 days:4,081#38,314

by nziniwal6 months ago

Create beautiful galleries with images from your Media Library, multiple layouts, colors, and a lightbox. Set defaults under Galleries → Settings.

Unfeature

Down in the last 7 days:3,540#39,454

by Grant Mangham12 years ago

Simply associates a checkbox with the featured image, allowing it to be skipped on single posts.

AI Image Disclosure

Down in the last 7 days:4,229#40,384

by Ivijan-Stefan Stipic6 days ago

Declare AI-generated Media Library images and display configurable disclosure badges on Featured Images and optional post-content images.

First Picture as Featured Image

Down in the last 7 days:2,452#42,083

by Deblyn Prado9 years ago

Set first picture as featured image in posts or pages that doesn't have a Featured image