About this plugin
DZS AI Featured Image Generator is a powerful administrative utility designed to massively optimize your publishing workflow. Instantly scan your entire WordPress website for posts missing their featured images, block them into a seamless list, and dynamically invoke AI to generate and sideload high-quality imagery based precisely on your post’s content.
Designed for efficiency, this plugin interfaces with the latest leading generative image engines:
- OpenAI DALL-E 2: Excellent for budget-conscious, ultra-fast background generations.
- OpenAI DALL-E 3: Unmatched visual capabilities and strict prompt adherence.
- Nano Banana 2 (Google Gemini Image API): Direct integration with native Google Gemini models for generating crisp, optimized images without resorting to third-party endpoints.
Key Features
- Global Scan: A dedicated admin table identifies every post without a featured thumbnail.
- 1-Click Generation: Hit Generate, and let the AI autonomously pull your post title and excerpt, pipe it into your custom prompt template, and formulate a relevant image.
- Custom Aspect Ratios: Define standard (1024×1024) or completely custom dimensional constraints (e.g., 1024×1792). The plugin seamlessly requests the native scale or autonomously refines and crops the raw image down locally using WordPress’s WP_Image_Editor class.
- Native Media Library Delivery: Automatically sideloads API arrays, converts Base64 formats, strictly encodes everything down to a lightweight.jpg, and seamlessly attaches directly to the post.
- Dynamic Shortcodes: Wrap custom prompt variables like {{post_title}} and {{post_content}} to generate highly specific custom images.
External Services
This plugin relies on external, third-party generative artificial intelligence APIs to generate post featured images. Based on your configuration, requests will be routed to either OpenAI or Google Gemini:
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OpenAI API: Used for image generation with DALL-E models.
- Data Sent: The prompt text consisting of the post title and part of the post content (up to 1,000 characters). No user personal data or website identifying details are sent.
- Trigger: Sent only when an administrator explicitly clicks the “Generate” button for a post.
- Service Details: Provided by OpenAI, L.L.C.
- Links: OpenAI Terms of Use, OpenAI Privacy Policy.
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Google Gemini API: Used for image generation with Gemini / Imagen models (via the Nano Banana 2 configuration option).
- Data Sent: The prompt text consisting of the post title and part of the post content (up to 1,000 characters). No user personal data or website identifying details are sent.
- Trigger: Sent only when an administrator explicitly clicks the “Generate” button for a post.
- Service Details: Provided by Google LLC.
- Links: Google Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy.