I use plugins to scan posts for images and set them as featured automatically but none of them work anymore. I just imported a bunch of posts using WP All Import. I used the free version which doesn’t download the images itself, but you can easily change the content template to include HTML image tags with the post image as the src in the post content.
In the past, I would simply do the import and run Auto Featured Image, Auto Regenerate Thumbnails, and Auto Upload Image. This time it did a great job uploading the external images but it didn’t attach any of the images to the posts. As a result, I have a media library full of unattached images.
When I try rerunning Auto Featured Image, it detects all the images but never sets any of them as the featured image. When I run Auto Regenerate Thumbnails it appears to run fine but doesn’t set any as thumbnails. There is no way to re-run Auto Upload Images because there are no external images left.
Can anyone think of a reason why none of these plugins seem capable of finishing their jobs by attaching the images to their posts?
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Seems like a question you need to ask the plugin developer about.