Title: Setting Featured Image without uploading using Admin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Setting Featured Image without uploading using Admin

 *  [mstrmoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mstrmoo/)
 * (@mstrmoo)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-featured-image-without-uploading-using-admin/)
 * Hi,
 * I am using this plugin [http://www.wesg.ca/2008/06/wordpress-plugin-mass-page-maker/](http://www.wesg.ca/2008/06/wordpress-plugin-mass-page-maker/)
   to make multiple posts automatically with dynamic content. However, I also need
   to add a Featured Image to each post but the plugin doesn’t have any options 
   for that.
 * Is there any way that I can upload the images view FTP to my site, and link them
   in the post and set them as a “Featured Image” with some script either in the
   content of the post, or using custom fields?

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 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-featured-image-without-uploading-using-admin/#post-1756387)
 * Will *all* of the posts have separate individual dates on it? I could show you
   some code that will read images by date from a specific directory and display
   them as if it were a post-thumbnail.
 * Otherwise you should probably contact the plugin maker and see if he could add
   that feature for you.
 *  Thread Starter [mstrmoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mstrmoo/)
 * (@mstrmoo)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-featured-image-without-uploading-using-admin/#post-1756477)
 * Hmmm.. No the posts wouldn’t have unique dates, unless I was able to batch edit
   the dates somehow. However, I can change the name of each image and post name
   to a different date, or just some number sequence.. Can the code be set to match
   a number sequence instead of a date?
 *  [jderosa3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jderosa3/)
 * (@jderosa3)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-featured-image-without-uploading-using-admin/#post-1756548)
 * mstrmoo,
 * I just came across your post and have a similar issue here:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-on-how-to-grab-image-from-post-to-create-featured-image?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-on-how-to-grab-image-from-post-to-create-featured-image?replies=1)
 * Can you confirm this is the same thing you are (sort of) doing… if so have you
   figured this out?

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