Featured Image from YouTube
Quickly add a featured image to posts that include YouTube videos by retrieving the featured image from the YouTube service.
Featured Image from YouTube ranks #14,664 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, and was last updated Sep 5, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
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- Version
- 1.7
- Last Updated
- Sep 05, 2026
- Requires WP
- 5.0+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.4
- PHP Version
- 5.6 or higher
- Author
- davidfcarr
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- Reviews
- 0
- Support Threads
- 0
- Resolved
- 0%
TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for WordPress site owners who publish posts, pages, or other content featuring embedded YouTube videos, including users of MailPoet newsletters. It solves the problem of manually downloading and setting YouTube video thumbnails as featured images by automatically fetching and installing them from YouTube.
- Fetches YouTube video thumbnail
- Sets thumbnail as featured image
- Choose video when multiple embedded
- Multiple thumbnail resolutions supported
- Max Resolution option available
- Manual featured image override option
- Improves MailPoet newsletter post listings
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