Get and Set Images as Featured with WPeMatico

Updated Aug 2, 2018 Basic instructions for the Free and Pro versions to correctly get images and make featured from the feeds or from source websites with WPeMatico. (This can change for future versions 😉 You can
set an image as featured in a WordPress post if it was previously uploaded and attached to the same post. WPeMatico doesn’t do this with its configuration by default when installing because we don’t want a lot of files starting to be uploaded to our own
Wordpress without control. So, although it is very easy, requires a few steps with configuration settings of the plugin and options inside the campaign.

Upload and set Featured Image

  • First at all, we need a feed with image in every item content. Like the image below. An easy way to see a feed content, is with firefox browser. If you have PRO version and will use Full Content feature, then this step can be ignored because will
    use the content of the source page instead of the item content.

  • Second step consists in setup the plugin for download images to your wordpress website and then attach them to the post that being created.
  • Here you can choice Store images locally (upload), attach images or just Set first image in content as Featured Image like in the image. Over the mouse over the blue info icons in your Settings to get more
    help.

  • Use custom upload is not recommended unless you have problems with standard uploads.
  • If you don’t want to link external images to source site, check: Remove link to source images, then If an image upload gives error, this will delete the ‘src’ attribute of the <img>.
  • As last advise, don’t check Strip HTML Tags if you want to keep the images in content.

Enclosure and media tags in the feed items.

  • Some feeds have no images in content, but have special ‘enclosure’ or ‘media’ tags with links to the images.

media_enclosure

Firefox showing a media enclosure in a feed item.

  • Professional Addon have some extra features like support for enclosures and media images and also others that you can see at the image below.
  • There are special cases that the images have queries variables in the same url of the image, avoiding that WordPress uploads the image. Professional Addon support this by checking Strip the queries variables in images URls. For free version see the filter code below.

  • Also with Professional Addon you can filter images by size and remove them from content by higher or lower size.
  • Another way to strip the special chars from image url and allows to upload is by adding an external filter in your functions.php file. You can copy paste from here below.
add_filter('wpematico_img_src_url', 'myfunction_img_src',10,1 );
function myfunction_img_src($imagen_src_real) {
// Find only image filenames after the / and before the ? sign
	preg_match('/[^\/\?]+\.(?:jp[eg]+|png|bmp|giff?|tiff?)/i', $imagen_src_real, $matches);
// First step of urldecode and sanitize the filename
	$imgname = sanitize_file_name(urldecode(basename($matches[0])));
// Split the name from the extension
	$parts = explode('.', $imgname);
	$name = array_shift($parts);
	$extension = array_pop($parts);
// Join all names splitted by dots
	foreach((array) $parts as $part) {
		$name .= '.' . $part;
	}
// Second step of urldecode and sanitize only the name of the file
	$name = sanitize_title(urldecode($name));
// Join the name with the extension
	$newimgname = dirname($imagen_src_real) . '/' . $name . '.' . $extension;
	return $newimgname;
}

Open Graph, Facebook and Twitter images

Full content Addon has the feature to read from the sources the full content and establishes the og:image url or the Twitter: image if the first fail as featured image.

facebooktwitter_image

66 thoughts on “Get and Set Images as Featured with WPeMatico”

    • Hi Jur,
      If the image is in the feed item content, then should be fetched with the rest of the content.

  4. why not me options appears in WPeMatico settings? I get a blank page on that tab and tambiem an error message that says to me: Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_setopt () in C: \ xampp \ htdocs \ myweb \ wp-content \ plugins \ WPeMatico \ app \ lib \ wp_ratings.php on line 21.

    What’s going on? I need help please to ponder see the configuration options.

  7. Is there any way to change the template per campaign to adjust where the image floats?

    I would like the images to float left and wrap the text around the image. It looks like right now I can only call the {image} tag, but I can’t modify it directly to add the float align css to it.

    The existing styling places the image on top of the content.

  8. Hola, he instalado el plugin gratuito para testearlo, me gustaria saber como puedo hacer para que añada dentro de la cofiguracion del post featured image para que en mi blog se vea la imagen y luego puedan entrar en el contenido. Gracias

    • Hola Beatriz
      Debes seleccionar la opción en Settings. Y asegurarte que el feed que uses en la campaña tenga imagenes en el contenido del item. (en el mismo feed)
      Luego el plugin tomará la primer imagen del contenido y la pondrá como destacada o Featured.

      Saludos

  9. Hello, I have installed the free plugin to test it, I would like to know how I can do it to add inside the cofiguration of the post featured image so that my blog can see the image and then can enter the content. Thank you

  11. Hey, guys!

    A very nice plugin! I am playing around with it and I got a strange problem. I dont get the images properly. Actually, in one campaign it worked awesome, and the images were uploaded correctly into wordpress directory. However, I could not repeat this result. So whenever I keep using the plugin, i dont get the images anymore, while everything else works perfect. The checkboxes are set correctly, seemingly. I could not find a reason why would it be so? Any suggestions? I use CloudFare CDN.

  14. this is perfect but I need adding featured images to url not to my host storage space. you’ll save my life if you add this feature to setting featured images by image url not uploading theme.

  18. Hello, I installed the free plugin to test it, now I want to know how do I add it inside the highlighted image’s post configuration so that I can in my blog see the image and then be able to insert the content.

  39. Great pluugin..it just one thing the images don’t appear after I selected the appropriate global setting for images function. Please help..

    Thanks

  41. I am choosing the option to remove featured image from content but it is not working. So when you go to the post there are 2 images duplicated.
    Please help

  42. Hi, It is not fetching any featured image it only fetch content, need urgent help
    1. how to make it to set featured image
    2. how to hide it appeared first on this website

    • Hi falak,

      I invite you to create a ticket in our support system, in this way we can provide you with better help to solve your problem.

      You can also attach the Debug File from the plugin, you can find it and download from your WordPress admin, WPeMatico, Settings, System Status tab ->Debug Info

      If you can include the campaigns logs by checking the checkbox field before download the debug file.

      Once you have it you can upload it to the ticket so we can analyze it.

      Regards

  44. I have my enable featured image box checked and yet it still never sets featured images to post.
    Please I really need help with this, cuz I really love this plugin.

    • Hi Gabriel,

      I will be helping you solve your problem, I have answered you in our ticket system, please attach the Debug File from the plugin to the ticket you created.

      Regards.

  49. Is it possible scans the original content when image is not found on RSS? And are you working for rupport XML sitemaps too?

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