Featured Images Not Getting Set | WordPress.org

crashnet
(@crashnet)

10 years, 1 month ago

On a WP install with about 1400 images I ran both “Import External and Set Featured Image” and “Set Featured Image”. There were 6 errors (which I will ignore) for the first run and 0 errors for the 2nd run (“Set Featured Image” only).

Why would the featured images functionality be failing? Could it be because the original blog (from which I exported using the standard WP import) runs on mydomain.com while the development blog (to which I imported the posts) runs on temp.otherdomain.com?

(Question also posted on http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/135525/, if you want some SE points)

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betholsoncreative
(@betholsoncreative)

10 years ago

I’m having this same problem. It’d be nice if someone would offer support on this potentially useful plugin :/

Lucy Tomas
(@lucymtc)

9 years, 9 months ago

I had the same problem with Media Tools so I wrote a plugin to set the featured images. You can give it a try, it worked really well for me (only if the images don’t come from the old site).

http://wordpress.org/plugins/set-all-first-images-as-featured/

I released it not long ago, so I recommend you to do a backup or your database first, or at least the posts and postmeta tables in case you don’t get the result you were expecting.

Hope it helps 🙂

Lucy Tomas
(@lucymtc)

9 years, 9 months ago

Also here you can find a post with the steps I followed:

http://wptips.me/how-to-import-images-when-importing-posts-from-a-wordpress-export-file/

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