AI Featured Image
by Amr Issa · AI
Also makes 4 other plugins · 130+ installs across the portfolio →
AI featured images in one click, in bulk, in your content, or by asking Claude through MCP. Free with OpenAI, Stability AI and Grok; Pro adds more.
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Health
B 84/100
Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈160 estimated
Momentum
+11%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “ai”, “mcp” and “featured image” for “xai”, “reasoning” and “stability”. “ai” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “xai” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “mcp” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “reasoning” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “featured image” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #24. “stability” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
84 health vs 77 average across 3,394 AI plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.3%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 7.9K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median AI plugin keeps 1.4%, across 1,010 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other AI plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 45 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 2 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
1 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
59
Momentum
Gaining ground
+1.4
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
57%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+1.6
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| featured image generator | #3 | #12 | up 1 |
| auto featured image your tag | #10 | #19 | up 1 |
| xai | #6 | #9 | up 1 |
| stability | #11 | #21 | up 10 |
| upscale | #8 | #11 | up 1 |
| image generator your tag | #15 | #22 | up 9 |
| ai image generator | #10 | #21 | up 4 |
| reasoning | #9 | #13 | up 2 |
| grok | #15 | #22 | down 3 |
| background removal | #13 | #23 | up 2 |
| auto generated featured image | #8 | #19 | 0 |
| featured image your tag | #24 | #23 | 0 |
| automatic featured image | #9 | #18 | up 4 |
| featured image column | #11 | #23 | up 4 |
| external featured image | #11 | #23 | up 2 |
| featured image from title | #13 | #22 | up 4 |
| category featured image | #13 | #21 | up 3 |
| multiple featured image | #14 | #23 | up 4 |
| latest featured images | #14 | #24 | up 5 |
| remove featured image | #14 | #23 | up 5 |
| ai your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mcp your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
90 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 57 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “ai”, “mcp” and “featured image” for “xai”, “reasoning” and “stability”. “ai” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “xai” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “mcp” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “reasoning” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “featured image” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #24. “stability” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “image generator”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 13 Jul 2025 · 475 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.7K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
45
releases in the last 12 months
2d ago
latest release · v2.0.1 · 29 Oct 2026
52
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 61% of the way through.
Install history since 14 Jul 2025
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ DigitalVision5mo ago
I liked the webp compression option
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "AI featured images in one click, in bulk, in your content, or by asking Claude through MCP. Free with OpenA..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 21 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 21 of 21 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and 1 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 5 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 8,109 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "auto featured image" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-21 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-03-17 100+ → 90+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2026-03-10 90+ → 100+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2026-03-01 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-02-27 70+ → 80+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-02-23 80+ → 70+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2026-02-13 60+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-02-12 70+ → 60+ down after 4 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Angie – Agentic AI 100K+ installs · 3.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
AI Engine – MCP Server & AI Chatbot for WordPress, with Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini 90K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
AI 60K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags A
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