The Post Thumbnail Generation You can generate post thumbnails if there is at least one existing image and no other featured image defined. In this case, the plugin will grab this image and set it as a featured image.
Before the update, APT used to generate images from its own media library. Now even a third-party website image can become a featured image. Just make sure to add a link to the external image inside a page or a post.
You can execute shortcodes before APT starts searching for the featured image. So if you use third-party plugins to grab images to your website (for example, from Instagram), add a shortcode to the page/post. As a result, the shortcode’s content is replaced with images, and APT set any of them as the featured image.
The Automatic Post Thumbnail Generation
The automatic post thumbnail generation was a default feature in the old APT version, so, once published, each new post displayed a featured image chosen from all the post images randomly. Sometimes, it caught authors by surprise when they activated the plugin and all posts with no featured images suddenly and randomly displayed one. It could confuse the editor or even upset him if he wanted to choose custom featured images for each post.
We’ve paid attention to our users’ feedback and disabled the default post thumbnail generation feature in the new APT version.
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