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Best Featured Image Management plugins for WordPress

Categories Content Management

Plugins that assign, generate, replace, or bulk manage featured images for posts and other content, including tools that derive featured images from content images.

Read from 131,237 plugin records - figures refreshed 1 hour ago

36 Plugins classified here Out of the plugins that have been through the classifier so far
138.5K Combined active installs Summed across the published bands, so read it as an order of magnitude
4.55 Average rating Across the 32 here that carry a rating at all

The plugins

Plugins in Featured Image Management

Ranked by active installs; plugins in the same published band share a rank. Each page has a maintenance check and the alternatives.

#1

XO Featured Image Tools

xo-featured-image-tools 20K installs · 4.7 stars
#1

External Thumbnail

external-thumbnail 20K installs · 5.0 stars
#1

Featured Image Admin Thumb

featured-image-admin-thumb-fiat 20K installs · 4.7 stars
#4

Multiple Post Thumbnails

multiple-post-thumbnails 10K installs · 4.7 stars
#5

Kama Thumbnail

kama-thumbnail 8K installs · 4.7 stars
#6

Easy Add Thumbnail

easy-add-thumbnail 7K installs · 4.5 stars
#6

Get the Image

get-the-image 7K installs · 4.3 stars
#8

Automatic Featured Images from Videos

automatic-featured-images-from-videos 6K installs · 4.6 stars
#9

Multiple Featured Images

multiple-featured-images 5K installs · 4.7 stars
#9

Generate Images (AI) – Magic Post Thumbnail

magic-post-thumbnail 5K installs · 4.3 stars
#9

FSM Custom Featured Image Caption

fsm-custom-featured-image-caption 5K installs · 4.6 stars
#12

WEN Featured Image

wen-featured-image 3K installs · 4.5 stars
#12

Require Featured Image

require-featured-image 3K installs · 3.9 stars
#12

Featured Galleries

featured-galleries 3K installs · 4.7 stars
#15

Featured Image with URL

featured-image-with-url 2K installs · 4.9 stars
#15

Video Thumbnails Reloaded

video-thumbnails-reloaded 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#17

Featured Image Generator

featured-image-generator 1K installs · 4.6 stars
#17

WP Random Post Thumbnails

wp-random-post-thumbnails 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#17

SNY Auto Featured Image

wp-auto-featured-image 1K installs · 4.2 stars
#17

Easy Featured Images

easy-featured-images 1K installs · 4.7 stars
#17

Display Featured Image for Genesis

display-featured-image-genesis 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#17

Add Featured Image Custom Link

custom-url-to-featured-image 1K installs · 4.1 stars
#17

Autoset Featured Image

autoset-featured-image 1K installs · 4.2 stars
#17

Auto Featured Image from Title

auto-featured-image-from-title 1K installs · 4.5 stars
#25

Thumbnails and Featured Images

thumbnails 900 installs · 5.0 stars
#26

Bulk Featured Image

bulk-featured-image 800 installs · 4.3 stars
#27

Featured Image in Content

featured-image-in-content 600 installs · 5.0 stars
#27

Sharing Image

sharing-image 600 installs · 4.7 stars
#29

Category Featured Image

category-featured-image 400 installs · 2.9 stars
#29

Setup Default Featured Image

setup-default-feature-image 400 installs
#31

文章配图

article-with-pictures 200 installs
#31

Auto Featured Image (Auto Generated)

auto-featured-image-auto-generated 200 installs · 3.6 stars
#33

Newspaper Social Media Photo Card

newspaper-social-media-photo-card 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#33

Featured Image from YouTube

featured-image-from-youtube 100 installs
#33

Freundschaft Default Featured Images

freundschaft-default-featured-images 100 installs
#33

AI Featured Image

ai-featured-image-generator 100 installs · 5.0 stars

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