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Setup Default Featured Image

by theme funda · Uncategorized

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Automatically set a default featured image for all WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types — no more missing thumbnails, ever.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
80 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

80 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

400+

Active installs

≈450 estimated

3.7K

Total downloads

since 2022

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

+1%

173

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

88 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+1% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

173

now · peak 375

17330d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Setup Default Featur · #9984 you XO Featured Image To · #1090 Admin Featured Thumb · #15240 Smart Auto Featured · #24617

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.

433per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 85% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 85%
v1.0 15%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈450

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 500+ in roughly 330 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,393 observations

400Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 0 reviews

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Details

Version
1.3
Last updated
1mo ago
Added
2022-08-30 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
5.2
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
5.6
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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. Medium · 5.3 Setup Default Featured Image <= 1.2 - Missing Authorization ↗
    2025-01-14 CVE-2025-24642 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.2 Patched in 1.3

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

Dutch (Belgium) 5%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-08-09 300+ → 400+ up after 494 days in tier
  2. 2025-04-02 200+ → 300+ up after 189 days in tier
  3. 2024-09-25 100+ → 200+ up after 109 days in tier
  4. 2024-06-08 90+ → 100+ up after 10 days in tier
  5. 2024-05-29 80+ → 90+ up after 13 days in tier
  6. 2024-05-16 70+ → 80+ up after 11 days in tier
  7. 2024-05-05 60+ → 70+ up after 4 days in tier
  8. 2024-05-01 50+ → 60+ up after 50 days in tier

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