Quick Featured Images

Your time-saving Swiss army knife for managing tons of featured images within minutes: Set, replace and delete them in bulk, in posts lists and set default images for future posts.

The plugin does not collect any personal data and is 100% compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Manage featured images quickly

The plugin ‘Quick Featured Images’ helps you bulk managing featured images, setting automatic default featured images to save your time.

1. It sets, replaces and removes featured images for hundreds of posts and pages in one go. You can run it over all contents or let it work only to desired contents by using flexible filters.
2. It sets, replaces and removes featured images in a sortable image column in lists of posts, pages and custom post types if they support thumbnails. So you can change the images per post quickly without leaving the posts list page.
3. It enables you to define presets for automatic default featured images for future posts as many as you need. You can set accurate rules based on post properties.
4. It removes database entries of featured images without existing image files with a simple single click

If you want to include audios, videos and custom post types and get more options, than take a look the Pro version Quick Featured Images Pro.

Demo

You want to test Quick Featured Images before installing on your site? Try it out on your individual WordPress playground and click here.

Support

Support can take place in the public support forums, where the community can help each other out.
Please note, we do not provide individual email support for our free version. This is reserved for customers of our Pro version.

What users said

• “Great plugin with great support” in Reviews on wordpress.org by danilocubrovic on January 24, 2025
• “Excellent plugin to do just that: quickly manage all your featured images without the need to edit the posts directly.” in Reviews on wordpress.org by danielepais on December 7, 2024
• “Great for my needs” in Reviews on wordpress.org by gaiusjaugustus on January 12, 2024
• “simple to use” in Reviews on wordpress.org by rabbitace on September 8, 2023
• “SO helpful!” in Reviews on wordpress.org by brandcandyamy on June 6, 2023
• “OMG, so good!” in Reviews on wordpress.org by marverix on February 27, 2021
• “This was awesome and saves so much time” in Reviews on wordpress.org by frank on December 31, 2020
• “One of My Must Have Plugins” in Reviews on wordpress.org by WillOfTheWeb on June 25, 2020
• “I'm confused about it. It's very very very useful!” in Reviews on wordpress.org by yueli on December 19, 2019
• “Doing the job perfect” in Reviews on wordpress.org by stigbarrett on February 14, 2019
• “Must be part of wordpress core” in Reviews on wordpress.org by Marc73 on November 2, 2018
• “Simply the best for bulk featured image” in Reviews on wordpress.org by Syamsul Alam on January 21, 2018
• “Made adding 10,000 featured images a breeze.” in Reviews on wordpress.org by synchronista on July 28, 2017
• Number 7 in 8 Plugins to Help Supercharge Your WordPress Media Library by John Hughes on April 6, 2017
• “The plugin is fast, and it works great on big WordPress websites.” in How to make WP display featured image on excerpts? by Pramod on July 16, 2016
• “The plugin offers great features for handling the post thumbnails including bulk editing, overview, replace and much more.” in 6+ Best Plugins To Fix Featured Image Issues in WordPress by Editorial Staff on December 3, 2015
• Mentioned under “Essential Plugins” on slide #24 in The Plugins That Will Make Your Business Sink or Swim by Heather Wilde on September 15, 2015

Access

1. You will find the plugin under the own menu item ‘Featured Images’
2. You can select an image in the media library with the action link ‘Bulk set as featured image’. Click on it and you can go on with the plugin.
3. You can set in ‘Settings’ which minimum user role is allowed to see the plugin in his/her administration area. You can switch between ‘Administrator’ and ‘Editor’. The default value is ‘Editor’.

Bulk Edit: Actions

With Quick Featured Images you can apply time-saving tasks with many featured images: add, exchange and delete them in bulk.

Read the full description on the official page →