Quick Featured Images Pro

Quick Featured Images Pro manages featured images across posts, pages, and custom post types that support thumbnails. Use bulk actions for website-wide work, or change images from content lists.

Apply bulk picture changes

Set or replace featured images with one image, or assign several selected images in random order. You can remove a selected featured image or all existing featured images. Existing images stay unchanged by default; enable overwriting or limit the action to posts without a featured image.

For random assignment, you can use each selected image once. If there are more posts than selected images, leave the remaining posts unchanged or remove excess featured images after all selected images have been used.

Choose where images come from

Pro can use the first image in a post when it is in the media library, the first image from the current website domain, or the first external post image. It can copy or download site and external images into the media library when they are not already there. Other options include the first attached image, the first image in a standard WordPress gallery, an embedded-content thumbnail such as a YouTube thumbnail, or the first image in a NextGen Gallery.

Target the content you want

Filter bulk actions by post type, category, tag, post format, author, registered custom taxonomy terms, featured-image size, audio or video type, search term, post status, time, or parent page. Search can check post titles and content, or titles only. Preview the matching content before applying a change.

Set defaults for posts

Create rules that assign default featured images when a post is created or saved, including when it is saved from the frontend. Rules can use properties such as post type, category, tag, author, or a registered custom taxonomy. Pro also supports external images, multiple images for random assignment, a custom order for applying rule types, post-format matches, and title searches. A separate option can show random featured images at each page load. Choose an image, rule type, and matching value; you can edit or delete rules later.

Manage images from lists

Sortable featured-image columns display assigned images in post, page, and supported custom post type lists, with links to set, replace, edit, or remove an image. A media library column lists the posts that use each image as a featured image. You can also remove database entries for featured images whose image files no longer exist.

For a bulk change, choose the action and image source, set filters and options, then review the matching content before applying it. Bulk changes have no undo function.