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Alternatives to First Picture as Featured Image
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Forces Title, Content, Featured Image and Category before publishing posts/pages in Gutenberg.
Quick Featured Imagesv13.7.5
The time-saving solution for managing tons of featured images within minutes: Set, replace and delete in bulk and set default images for future posts.
Neutrope Quick Exportv0.1.1
Export posts, pages, and public custom post types to a UTF-8 CSV, including featured image info. Lightweight, no tracking, no external requests.
Automatically set a default featured image for all WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types — no more missing thumbnails, ever.
Automatically creates a title-text thumbnail and sets it as the featured image for posts that don't have one — with a live preview.
Automatically set missing featured images from the first image or a YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion video in your content.
Postlint Content Auditv1.0.0
Finds posts missing featured images, excerpts, tags, categories or alt text, plus thin content and duplicate titles, with one-click fixes.
Set featured images from the Media Library, one at a time or in bulk. Each selected image is assigned to the post it is attached to.
Adds inline thumbnail image to admin columns on Post/post types view (where supported). Click to easily set/change the featured image.