Title: Problem with auto posts Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Problem with auto posts * Resolved [wijksel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wijksel/) * (@wijksel) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/) * I think I’ve run into a problem with your excellent plugin. I’m using WP-o-Matic to generate auto posts from RSS feeds. QFI doesn’t appear to be working with these post, probably bececause they are injected to the database directly. When I run a mass-update on the posts to give them a featured imaged, it works, but not at the time of creation. Is there any way to get around this? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-featured-images/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-featured-images/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173649) * Hi Wijksel, I think the sub menu page “Preset Featured Images” of QFI is for you. On that page you can define rules to let auto-set featured images for future posts. * Thread Starter [wijksel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wijksel/) * (@wijksel) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173650) * Thanks, I know, I tried that. It works for posts that I enter manually, but it doesn’t “fire” on auto generated posts. I have the rule set to a specific category and WP-o-Matic is putting these auto posts in that same category, so the rule does match. * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173720) * I have just change two lines in the code of QFI. With that it should be possible to get automatic inserted posts with the desired featured images. * The changes are harmless, but make auto-set for new posts possible. Would you do me a favour and please test it on your server? I would tell you a download link to a zip file. You would unpack it and save it via FTP on your server. * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173811) * Hello wijksel, would it possible for you to test the script? * Thread Starter [wijksel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wijksel/) * (@wijksel) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173812) * Hi, sure, I can try. You can mail me on this username [@gmail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmail/). com. * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173814) * A mail is on the way to you. * [Sampheap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sampheap/) * (@sampheap) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173872) * Hello, * I am also using AutoBlogged from which the post’s first image is external link. Will this new code you mentioned above work to fetch the that first image to be featured? * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173873) * The plugin does not fetch external images, only already imported into the library. * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173874) * The next version will work with auto-blogging plugins. * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173875) * The currently new version 8.2 works with auto-blogging plugins (if the plugins use the WP standard function to insert new posts) * [Sampheap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sampheap/) * (@sampheap) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173876) * So the new version will first collect the first image into media library then auto set it as the featured image? Can it just set the image from that first external link to be the featured image without downloading to the media library first? * Currently I am using this plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-featured-image/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-featured-image/) to manually set my feature image. * Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/) * (@hinjiriyo) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-auto-posts/#post-5173877) * Till now the plugin works only with images you have imported into the media library. The new version takes the first image only if it is found in the library. External images are not considered. * But it is possible to implement your desired function in a future version of the plugin. Please be patient, it will take some weeks for me due to other duties. Thank you for the helpful link. 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