What does APT stand for?

APT stands for Auto Post Thumbnail.

What are the features of APT?

The features of APT include generating or removing featured images in one click, customizing the process, native image search for Elementor, Gutenberg, and Classic Editor, using filters based on post type, status, category, or creation date, and automatically generating an image for each post from the post title.

How can APT save time for website content creation?

APT can save up to 20 minutes per hour on generating content for a website.

How many steps does it take to create a post with APT?

With APT, it takes only three steps to create a post.

What are the benefits of using APT?

Using APT simplifies the process of publishing content, saves money on finding quality images, and improves search engine optimization, social sharing, and the overall attractiveness of a website or blog.

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Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail)

Automatically generate the Featured Image from the first image in post or any custom post type only if Featured Image is not set manually.

Rating:

3.8

Active Installations:

60000+

Last Updated:

Dec 10, 2024

WordPress Version:

5.6 or higher

Tested up to:

6.7.2

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Automate Image Generation

Automatically generate featured images from post titles.

Save Time and Money

Generate or remove featured images in one click, search and upload images instantly.

Customizable and Efficient

Use filters to generate or remove featured images based on post type, status, category, or creation date.

Maximize Website Potential

Improve SEO, social sharing, and website attractiveness with automatically generated featured images.

Author’s Site

4.1.6 (09.12.2024)

Added: Сompatibility with premium plugin

4.1.5 (09.12.2024)

Added: WordPress 6.7 compatibility
Added: Php 8.3 compatibility
Fixed security issues

4.1.4 (29.07.2024)

Fixed security issues

4.1.2

Updated plugin interface
Bug fixes
Fixed security issues

3.9.3

WordPress 6.5 compatibility
php 8.2 compatibility

3.9.18

WordPress 6.2 compatibility
ADD: The current generation method selected in the settings is displayed on the generation form

3.9.17

FIX: Some compatibility error

3.9.16

ADD: The ability to select an image from the media library in a pop-up window in the list of posts
FIX: Vulnerability with file extension

3.9.15

FIX: Some fixes

3.9.14

FIX: Image search in the post text

3.9.13

Some fixes for compatibility with premium plugin

3.9.12

ADD: CRON scheduled image generation (New option in settings) – PREMIUM
FIX: Compatibility with ShortPixel plugin
FIX: Generating images after importing via XML-RPC
FIX: Optimization of image generation

3.9.11

FIX: Google search API issue

3.9.10

ADD: Default image for generation
FIX: Memory allocate error on Generation page

3.9.9

FIX: Font for title generation

3.9.8

Some fixes

3.9.7

Fixed: Errors

3.9.6

Fixed: Some fixes

3.9.4

Fixed: Some fixes

3.9.3

Fixed: Security issue
Add: Sidebar on this plugin pages

3.9.2

Fixed: Link to the pricing page
Fixed: WP 5.8 compatibility.

3.9.1

Fixed: post type generation.
Fixed: multisite support.
Other minor fixes

3.9.0

New appearance of the plugin pages.
Add: Logging the generation process.
Fixed: generation fixes.
Other minor fixes

3.8.1

Fixed: Adding images to the post text.
Add: Import all images from the post text to the media library. (PRO)
Other minor fixes

3.8.0

Fixed: Encoding issues (On the generated image, the title displayed html entities instead of characters.).
Added: New option in the image settings: dimensions of the generated image
Other minor fixes
Added: NEW OPTION: Search for an image by title of the post in Google (PRO)

3.7.7

Fixed: Encoding issues. Solution by @bibliata
Fixed: Uppercase issue (agréable > AGRéABLE) strtoupper() -> mb_strtoupper()
Raised the minimum version of PHP -> 7.0
Other minor fixes

3.7.6

Fixed: Selecting a date on the mass generation page

3.7.5

Fixed: jQuery.fn.load() and other bugs after update to WordPress 5.5

3.7.4

Fixed: Google image search

3.7.3

Added: Images in posts are recommended by the NEURAL NETWORK. (PRO)

3.7.2

Fixed: generation of featured images

3.7.1

Added: “Commercial and derived use” checkbox for Google search
Fixed: Divi theme compatible

3.7.0

Added: Automatically generation an image for each post from the post title and sets it as the featured image
Added: Settings for featured image generation
Added: Support for WordPress mobile apps (automatic add featured image when creating/updating a post)
Redesigned Settings page
Fixed: “Metadata error” when trying to download an image from photobank
Fixed: In some cases the plugin did not find images in the post text
Fixed: (PRO) In the automatic generation filter, you can select a custom post type if it is displayed on the frontend
Many other minor changes and bugfixes

3.6.0

New: Bulk delete thumbnails
New: Before searching images in the text of the post, the shortcodes are executed
Updated About page
Translation into Russian language
Other minor changes and bugfixes

3.5.0 (2019-09-11)

Fixed: Php warning “is_readable(): open_basedir restriction in effect”. more

3.5.0

Fixed: Errors in the plugin on user requests
New: Bulk Featured Images generation
New: Featured Images selective generation
New: Manual Featured Images Selection
New: Image search in Google, Unsplash, Pixabay
New: Compatibility with Elementor and Gutenberg.

3.4.1

Fix for unchecked extension of uploaded files

3.4.0

Tested with the latest wordpress release.

3.3.3

Fix for SQL error begin caused due to no ID

3.3.2

Tested with WordPress-3.6.x
Small tweaks

3.3.1

Tested with WordPress-3.5.1

3.3.0

Added fix for featured images behaving differently in WordPress version 3.4. NOTE: This version will fix only images in future posts. For fixing images of past posts see http://www.clickthrough-marketing.com/how-to-fix-auto-post-thumbnail-on-wordpress-3.4-seo-friendly-800610805/

3.2.3

Added fix for jquery progress bar error causing due to WordPress version 3.1

3.2.2

Added back publish_post action so that regular posts work without any issues.
Added code to check whether the image exists in database before trying to fetch it.

3.2.1

Added code to correctly link the featured/post thumbnail with the post so that the Media Library shows the association correctly.
Assigning title to the generated featured/post thumbnail by extracting it from the title of processed image.

3.2

Added support for creating featured thumbnails for custom post types as well. Batch processing will also generate thumbnails for any type of post.

3.1

Renamed Gen. Post Thumbnails to Auto Featured Image and moved it under Settings menu.

3.0

Added Batch Processing capability to generate post thumbnails for already published posts.
A new menu item Gen. Post Thumbnails is added under Tools menu.

2.0

Added functionality to generate Post Thumbnail for scheduled posts. Thumbnail will be generated when scheduled post gets published.

1.1

Added a wrapper function using cURL for file_get_contents in case ‘allow_url_fopen’ ini setting is off.

1.0

First release

it looks like it should exclude pages, but it does not...

By yourautisticlife on January 12, 2025

As the title says.

Worked extremely well

By Deleyna on December 18, 2024

I had a blog with over 2000 posts without the featured image set properly. This plugin and about 15 minutes and the problem is solved. THANK YOU!!!

It Did Not Work For Me

By chaos702 on December 13, 2024

I spent several hours working on this plugin (premium) and it simply does not work.

If you know what you are doing, great plugin

By darrenslaughter on February 19, 2024

Here's what I mean. If you are importing content that needs an image, the drafts it is. If you have 200 posts and you ask the app to create images, then you delete the plugin and the images go away, thats the plugin doing exactly what its supposed to do. Otherwise, good stuff.

Please consider ChatGPT AI Images

By (jfrovich) on November 17, 2023

Hey I loved your plugin it works great. Please consider adding the API for chatGPT DALLE images. Thanks

WHAT A JOKE. WASTE OF TIME. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

By mip21 on July 25, 2023

WHAT A F****G JOKE THIS IS! I install the app, only to find out that every single option requires premium. The only thing you can do with the free version is via Google, which requires so complex very user-unfriendly API bullsh*t manipulation.

You're getting one star. Considerable yourselves to be out of this world fortunate. You deserve 0. Too bad I can't give you 0 stars.

Damn crooks.

Not working even in premium

By gvg313 on July 24, 2023

Plugin not generating thumbnails even in premium version :(

After uploading the image it is not setting the featured image

By onsecrethunt on April 21, 2023

The plugin has tons of useless features and giving pro features which is not worthless, as free version is not setting images as featured image thumbnail when saving the post or publishing the post.

It does not work. They don't support.

By mevabien22 on March 20, 2023

The plugin does not work, it does not generate any image, I wrote to support, I published in this forum and they do not respond anywhere. Very bad experience with this Wordpress plugin, a shame because the idea of it is very good, a shame about the support.