Title: [Plugin: Auto Featured Image]
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Auto Featured Image]

 *  [Travis Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmith/)
 * (@wpsmith)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-featured-image/)
 * Recently I used this plugin and Auto Post Thumbnail, but both didn’t do what 
   I wanted them to do.
 * So investigating their code, they were only searching the content pre-shortcode
   execution. So if anyone is using a shortcode to post images or videos, then this
   plugin wasn’t working so well.
 * So for Auto Featured Image in file auto-featured-image.php, if you insert
    `$
   html = do_shortcode($html);` in the static function found_image_url($html) after`
   $matches = array();` then it will execute shortcodes before assigning the post
   thumbnail. This is important for those who use shortcodes to display images (
   or even videos in Auto Featured Image Plugin).

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-featured-image/)
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