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In this video we'll cover
14 of the best featured image plugins and tutorials for WordPress.
Images play an important role in the look
and feel of your site and to be able to showcase
them in a professional way is crucial.
To begin, we first have soliloquy. Soliloquy comes
with a featured content add on and allows
you to easily add featured content slider
on any WordPress theme. It will automatically
get the featured image from your article and
use it as a slide with your post and excerpt.
#2 is quick featured images and its a plugin
that lets you do bulk editing on your featured
images. You can also set a default image to
use as a feature or the first image
in the post as the featured image.
#3 is multiple post thumbnails which allows
you to add multiple featured images to your
WordPress posts.
#4 is require featured image. This is great
if you have a theme that really showcases
featured image and you have multiple authors
working on posts. This plugins stops anyone
from publishing a post without having a featured
image.
#5 is featured image column which will show
you on the media area if a featured image
is attached to that post or not. This makes
it quick and easy to add featured images to
previously published posts
#6 is default featured image which will set
a default featured image if none is set for
your posts.
The next one is easy add thumbnail which will setup
the first image in a post as the featured
image. This is great for older posts with
no featured image set as it will automatically
set it for you as long as there is an image
in the post.
#8 is video thumbnails and this is great if you have
a site full of videos. This plugin will look
to see if a post has a YouTube, or Vimeo, or Dailymotion
video and  it will automatically set the video thumbnail
as the featured image.
Conversely #9 is featured video plus and this sets your
video as a featured video instead of a featured image.
#10 is post thumbnail editor and it allows
you to edit images inside WordPress. Then
you can use the cropped image as the featured
image.
#11 is default fallback featured image in
WordPress. This is a way to add code to your
site instead of using a plugin.
#12 fallback featured image by category which
will let you set a default featured image
based on category this might work better
than the default basic image for the whole site.
#13 is the post thumbnails in WordPress RSS
feed and this will add thumbnails to your RSS feeds.
By default your RSS feeds don't show thumbnails.
#14 is regenerate thumbnails. And this is a plugin that works great if you've updated your theme, your new
theme might have different image dimensions. So using this plugin generates new image sizes in WordPress
and it makes your images match the theme.
And a bonus #15 is the fix Facebook incorrect
thumbnail issue in WordPress. This will fix
the issue if Facebook shares the wrong thumbnail.
This fix is in your Yoast's WordPress seo plugin
social features section and you can upload
the Facebook image to show for that post.
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