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  • Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    Hello Austin, great you ask that! I am currently working on this functionality and will publish it in the new version 8.0 in the next week. I will inform you here about the new release.

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    Hello Austin, with the currently new plugin version 8.0 you can set rules for default featured images as many as you need.

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    If the plugin works as you expected I would like you to leave a review.

    Thread Starter Austin Walters

    (@austin-walters)

    Thanks for the update.
    Will install and test over the week-end.

    Many Thanks

    Thread Starter Austin Walters

    (@austin-walters)

    Works great for manually entered posts.
    We use RSS Poster Pro to pull in posts from other sources.
    It doesn’t seem to allocate a featured image if they come in this way.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    This topic was reported by other users. I will take time to find a solution, but please be patient.

    Love this plug in!!! It has saved me a ton of time.
    The author I have posts from his ipad and it doesn’t auto set an image for his post. I will be eager to see this new functionality as most of our post are done that way. 🙂

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    Fine to read that, but please be patient 🙂

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    I have other works to do, so this functionality has to wait 🙂

    Fine work Hinjiriyo, I thank you for this great plugin.

    To add just a note because it’s relevant to this support thread, we do also publish using forms for logged in users from the front end (Gravity Forms). This always works exactly as expected that GF image upload to post is to be featured image (if image exists), if no image (in the past) there would be no featured image.

    So, I installed your plugin and set 2 alternate images for 2 categories, very straight forward. Now, when a user publishes a new post it does not grab the image, but if I open the post and just re-save it, (without touching or changing anything), the correct (quick featured image) is applied.

    Maybe this is just me having your plugin configured wrong. I have the lower radio button picked, and the checkbox on the right side ticked with the two images assigned and saved in the 2 rules below the options.

    If I am doing this wrong, please advise. If it is something else I will provide more detail as necessary. It’s possible that roles may be an issue but has not affected posting via GF as noted above.

    http://didtheycheat.com

    thx
    stu

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    The user has to have the capatibility to edit others post. In a standard WP installations these roles has this: Administrator, Editor.

    If the user is Author or has another role the plugin is omitted.

    Which role has the user in your case?

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    Hi Stu, please forget the text I wrote. I have just tested the plugin with the user roles editor, author and contributor. In every role the plugin sets the preset featured image.

    The capability to edit others posts is only checked while displaying the plugin in the WP backend. Setting the image as featured is not affected by this condition.

    So I could not reconstruct your case. If I remember correctly I saw such a bug if the default category is used in a rule. But even with such a rule the featured image is set always.

    I would be glad if you could find out the circumstances of your effect.

    Thanks for taking the time to look into this Hinjiriyo.

    Very interesting. With Gravity forms user registration, all our users are merely subscribers, who when logged in can access a form to make a post in a controlled environment. GF functionality bypasses the requirement for being Author or above to post. I found this interesting in addition to the user registration GF add-aon also bypasses “any member can join” in settings as well (which is probably beside the point here).

    The Post Author name is in fact correct on each individual subscriber post as I assigned “use logged in user as Author” for the content template. The posts automatically populate (get posted) immediately onto the front end, rather than being made drafts… meaning our workflow is seamless the way we intended it, but a broken image is displayed, until as I stated above that I go in and re-save the post.

    I have also confirmed that when I personally post with the correct categories, your plugin’s featured image replacement works on the first try, so no problems or conflicts I can see with our set up.

    I am not using the User Role Editor to alter any capabilities for anyone.

    Thx again, I hope this gives you a more complete understanding of our set up and what we’d like to achieve.

    stu

    Addendum to above: If a user does upload an image with the post it is the first thing in the post and automatically set as the featured image and has been the case since before introducing your “Quick Featured Images”plugin (and still works exactly as expected so I’ve also now proved there is no conflict and used a regular subscriber acct. to post w/image). So…. if there “was” no pic uploaded, there was no featured image and why I wanted to find a solution for a placeholder for the 2 categories that made sense. I see this plugin as a viable solution for many applications regardless if we get it to do exactly what we’d like here.

    Plugin Author Martin Stehle

    (@hinjiriyo)

    Thank you for your detailed description. I do not know the GF form so I have to assume some things.

    Maybe the form does not use the WP standard function to save the posts. So my plugin cannot hook in to set the image.

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