3.62. Assigning a featured image from media library

You can assign an image that already exists in the media library of WordPress as the featured image of the post. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Go to Site Settings Page and activate Filters Tab
2. Add a new Filter to Post data filters setting
3. Click to Add action command button of the filter and configure the new action command as follows:
   Subject:Post Property:Value Command:Set featured image Featured image IDs:  Add the ID of the image you want to set as the featured image. You can select the image by clicking to button, if you do not know the ID.
4. Save the site settings (See: Saving The Settings)

Important

If a featured image is found via Featured Image Selectors setting, and a featured image is assigned via Set featured image command, the image assigned via the command is used.

The following figure shows the filter that is described above.

Fig. 3.2 The filter that always assigns the specified featured image to the post

3.62.1. Assigning a fallback featured image

To assign a featured image when a featured image is not found in the target site, follow the steps below.

1. Go to Site Settings Page and activate Filters Tab

2. Add a new Filter to Post data filters setting

3. Click to Add condition command button of the filter and configure the new condition command like below. This defines a condition that will be true if there is no featured image in the target page’s source code.

   Subject:Element Property:Value Command:Does not exist Selectors:Define the CSS selectors that find the available featured images in the target page’s source code. This CSS selector will probably be the same as the CSS selector defined in Featured Image Selectors setting.

4. Click to Add action command button of the filter and configure the new action command as follows:

   Subject:Post Property:Value Command:Set featured image Featured image IDs:  Add the ID of the image you want to set as the featured image. You can select the image by clicking to button, if you do not know the ID.

5. Save the site settings (See: Saving The Settings)

Note

You can also define other conditions. For example, you can check if the title contains one or more specific words and, if so, assign an image that is related to those words.

The following figure shows the filter that is described above.

Fig. 3.3 The filter that assigns a fallback featured image to the post