Scheduled Featured Images

Contributors: tnolte, ndigitals
Author: Nolte Digital Solutions
Author URI: https://www.ndigitals.com/
Plugin URI: https://www.ndigitals.com/wordpress/plugins/scheduled-featured-images-plugin/
Donate link: https://www.ndigitals.com/donate/
Tags: images, featured, nds, schedule
Requires at least: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.8.2
Requires PHP: 5.5.9
Stable tag: 1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Scheduled Featured Images allows you to attach multiple images to any post-type and set them to be the featured image based on a schedule.

Description

The idea for this plugin was born out of the need to more easily manage a website that had it's Front Page updated with a new weekly/monthly/etc featured image. The Front Page, and other site Pages, featured image was planned out ahead of time, sometimes for months in advance, so it seemed tedious to have to manually update the featured images whenever they would change. Since the website's theme used the standard WordPress Featured Image functionality, to manage the header/banner image on each page, it seemed to make the most sense to expand on that and provide a way to manage future featured images.

Features

Attach Multiple Featured Images to Any Post Type
Scheduled Start and End Date/Time
Overlapping Schedules
Blank Schedules
Fallback Options to Allow For Overrides & Defaults
User Roles & Permissions
Restrict Who Can Set Per-Post Type Overrides

Progress & Development

Roadmap - Trello
Source Code Repository - GitHub
Known Issues - GitHub

Installation

Upload the nds-wp-scheduled-featured-images plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin.
Configure the plugin via Settings->Featured Images to meet your site's needs.

If you have any troubles please contact us.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will happen to my post-type's existing featured images after I enable the plugin?

Until the plugin's global settings, Settings->Featured Images, are updated to change it's behavior, your existing feature images will remain unchanged.

What will happen to my post-type's featured images if I disable the plugin?

Whatever is the currently set/displayed featured image will remain as the current featured image.

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