Not all posts have a Featured Image, so what then?

  • Resolved focuspulling

    (@focuspulling)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Unless I’m misunderstanding, you coded this plug-in to stop short of full functionality. That is to say, you limited its function to grabbing the Featured Image, and inserting it properly into the site’s RSS feed with minor alignment and sizing customization. What you didn’t do is create standard tiers to populate the RSS feed. Take, for example, this modest plug-in for the similar purpose of creating Facebook thumbnails:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-facebook-og-image/

    If there is no Featured Image, the plug-in proceeds next to scrape the post for the highest image; and then if there’s nothing still, it proceeds to populate with a default image.

    Your plug-in needs this minimum functionality (and I’d pay for it if you have it). Meanwhile, if it’s not on your agenda anyway, I’d love to hear from anyone else if there’s a plug-in that does this basic thing. The search function at www.ads-software.com for plug-ins is horrible.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/featured-images-for-rss-feeds/

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  • There are lots of plugins (or functions.php snippets) out there that do what you’re asking. For example, https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail/

    Thread Starter focuspulling

    (@focuspulling)

    I don’t think the solution to anything is stacking dozens of plugins for every single feature we want. (FYI, the one you linked to was abandoned in 2013, and it doesn’t even come close to accomplishing what I described in simple detail, as it merely generates a picture file then does nothing with it.) Everything I mentioned above is an easy, tiny, fitting complement to the plug-in at issue. Would love to hear from the actual developer on whether this will be implemented, otherwise I’ll look for another plug-in (or develop my own).

    I coded this plugin for free with time available to meet my own immediate needs, you’re welcome. ??

    True there could always be more added to it, I just don’t have the time, and I’ve gotten a total of 3 small donations in total from the thousands using it, so spending more time on it is not exactly at the top of my priority list. Sadly, most free plugins are suffering the same way.

    I have had others send me patches and code that I’ve added to the plugin, so I’m open to anyone forking the code and sending me code modifications, which I can then add to it.

    Regarding the issue of no Featured Image, well this plugin requires it. So you can use another plugin to do the parsing and set a Featured Image, then remove it, and use my plugin, making sure a Featured Image is set going forward. Using multiple plugins to create a solution to an issue is one way WordPress works well, and ideally the plugins complement each other.

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