Automatic Featured Images from Videos

Description

When placing a YouTube or Vimeo video within the first 4000 characters of a post, the thumbnail of that video will automatically be uploaded and set as the featured image for the post as long as the post does not already have a set featured image.

In addition, after setting the video thumbnail as the featured image, an “is_video” post meta field is updated to allow for the use of conditional statements within your loop.

Pluginize was launched in 2016 by WebDevStudios to promote, support, and house all of their WordPress products. Pluginize is not only creating new products for WordPress all the time, but also provides ongoing support and development for WordPress community favorites like CPTUI, CMB2, and more.

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’.
Search for ‘Automatic Featured Images from Videos’.
Activate Automatic Featured Images from Videos from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

Download Automatic Featured Images from Videos.
Upload the ‘Automatic Featured Images from Videos’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
Activate Automatic Featured Images from Videos from your Plugins page.

Reviews

omg!! it works!!! 7/24/2024

By bigcheesez on July 25, 2024

you just don't know how much you helped me! i pray that you are blessed with reward!!!

Best Plugin Ever!

By weetameal on June 6, 2024

Supprisingly it works with Gravity Form Addon Post Creation plugin too! Automatically set feature image from any link found in the post. Thank you dear developer!

Doesn't support Rumble

By braxtonhouse on January 27, 2024

Good idea, but doesn't support Rumble

its beatifull

By Fredbnm on September 9, 2023

it was exactly what I needed

Great plugin, very effective.

By It's All Entertainment (Max1138) on July 26, 2023

The plugin I've been looking for, works great. Please update.

Just cool

By wrey75 on February 25, 2022

An essential part of our WordPress website. Saved hours of work. Thanks very much.

It works

By ladyfirst2010 on October 1, 2021

Thank a ton to author. This will save a lot of time to add a featured image. FYI : Im using WordPress 5.8.1 running EnjoyVideo theme.

Great Utility

By metaglyphics on August 20, 2021

This plugin saved me a ton of coding. And the author responds to support inquiries remarkably quickly. Which is always a huge bonus, and above and beyond what one can reasonably expect from a free plugin. Thanks!

Not working with 5.7

By petenka on April 9, 2021

This plugin is exactly what I need, but does nothing 🙁 I have wordpress 5.7

Thank you for your plugin!

By siknoidas on January 24, 2021

Working with wp all import. Thank you, nice job guys! Of course 100/100 rating!

Changelog

1.2.5

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

1.2.4

Fixed: Better file naming of incoming images, based on youtube/video title value.
Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.6.x

1.2.3

Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.5

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.

1.2.1

Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.3

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.

1.1.2

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

1.1.1

Fixed: Extra forward slash in YouTube URLs that was causing 404 errors when trying to add to media library.

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.