50 Responses

1. 

   Mario · February 5, 2015 at 17:49:55 ·

   Hello

   Plugin will not allow me to upload to WP tried 2 different sites saying:

   Installing Plugin: Auto Featured Image from Title 1.3

   Downloading install package

   Unpacking the package…

   Could not create directory.

   Return to Plugin Installer

   1. 

      chris · February 8, 2015 at 18:18:34 ·

      Hi, this is a common WordPress plugin installation error that’s usually solved in one of two ways:

      1) Add the following code to your wp-config.php file

      ‘define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);’

      2) Or, it could be because you’ve run out of space on your host. Free up some space and try again. Because of the included images, the current version of the plugin requires 2.4 MB of free space.

      Let me know if one of these solutions works for you. God bless.

2. 

   Luke · February 18, 2015 at 06:01:32 ·

   hi, when the pro features gonna be available. I’ m waiting for the option to upload own background images (automated random use of background images would be great)

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      chris · February 18, 2015 at 08:26:57 ·

      Uploading custom backgrounds and fonts is coming very soon, probably within the next day or two. Random images is on the planned feature list, but won’t be in the next version. Probably the version after that.

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   wnnj · February 18, 2015 at 09:53:10 ·

   In your pro version, can I define multiple images per category so that the plugin will randomly pick the background and generate title?

   If not, can you add this as a suggestion?

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      chris · February 18, 2015 at 12:31:08 ·

      It doesn’t yet, but that’s the next feature I’m going to add.

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   deeps · February 21, 2015 at 23:43:13 ·

   does the Pro version has the ability to generate the all the images of a particular category in one go.

   Presently , the pro version can generate featured images for all previous pages and posts. but i want to generate the same for a particular category .. can this be done with a small modification …. if yes .. i m willing to buy the pro version !

   also , do i get future update and support in future ?

   1. 

      chris · February 23, 2015 at 00:51:39 ·

      The current version cannot simply generate images for one particular category. I’m not sure how much the plugin would need to be modified in order for that to happen. Yes, future updates and limited support are included (limited in that I will accept bug reports and seek to assure the plugin works as advertised, but will not necessarily include every feature asked for if it’s outside the scope of my development plans). I will update this page to make that clear.

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   Eugene · April 1, 2015 at 04:30:07 ·

   Hello!
   I have a problem with the naming of auto created images. Plugin creates files and called them “—.png” for different posts, so this posts have the look alike image.
   F.e:
   http://rberega.info/archives/7151 and http://rberega.info/archives/7145

   or
   http://rberega.info/archives/7172 and http://rberega.info/archives/7139

   1. 

      Chris · April 4, 2015 at 15:52:24 ·

      I will release an update in the next few days which will solve this problem.

   2. 

      Eugene · April 6, 2015 at 02:57:11 ·

      Thanks for your job!

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   Vonfry · April 3, 2015 at 06:57:42 ·

   It is really easy to use but there is a problem. If there has other characters which are not in Englist, the plugins can not make them into a picture. It means that the plugins only can make the title in english into a picture. I’m using the free one.

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      Chris · April 4, 2015 at 15:56:06 ·

      I know of some others who are successfully using this plugin in other languages. Could you show me the blog you’re using it on so that I can see the output of the images? Thanks.

7. 

   Ryan · April 17, 2015 at 09:41:00 ·

   I was going to purchase but the discount code is no longer valid

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      Chris · April 17, 2015 at 09:42:10 ·

      Sorry about that. Should work now.

8. 

   Marcus · April 21, 2015 at 02:07:21 ·

   Hi, We’re using Frontend Submissions from EDD to allow users to generate Download posts themselves but this doesn’t seem to auto generate the image on submission (although it does it fine when we do it from the admin panel). Do we need to add the post type of download to the code somewhere?
   thanks

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      Chris · April 21, 2015 at 12:34:06 ·

      Hi, I’m not familiar with how that plugin works, but I bet it has more to do with WordPress hooks than post types, but I certainly could be wrong. I’ll contact you via email so we can troubleshoot this issue.

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   Leli · June 28, 2015 at 16:25:29 ·

   I used to do this when auto generating html pages from xml many moons ago. It’s pretty cool you’ve done it in a plugin 🙂

   Quick question.. the Pro version lists the ability to upload your own fonts. Does it not take the font you are using in your theme into account? If not, could this be added as a feature request? For example, if I have h1’s styled to use a specific font, I could choose to use that font in the generated images? (Even if it’s a Google font, etc). Maybe just a simple choice such as “Style as h1/body tag”.

   Another question I just thought of: Does the random Flickr image use *any* or can you tell it which user’s account to pull one from?

   I’ll keep checking back to see when you add the live preview 🙂 Looks like an awesome plugin and I noticed you’re very responsive in the support section on the WordPress plugin page as well, which is excellent (and not done as often by plugin authors as many would like). Keep up the great work!

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      Chris · July 2, 2015 at 14:16:51 ·

      Thanks! That’s an interesting feature request concerning using the theme’s css. I’ll have to think about that one. I’ve thought about making the Flickr implementation more customizable, so it just may have more options in the future, such as coming from a particular account as you mentioned. The live preview may take awhile, though. It’s a pretty big endeavor, and other projects lately often demand my attention (including another WordPress plugin I’ve been working on that I’ll be releasing very soon). But I’m fairly confident I’ll get to it eventually. I really like coding for WordPress, and creating this plugin in particular has been very rewarding.

10. 

    Mustafa · September 6, 2015 at 14:14:18 ·

    I have bought your plugin today. But in bulk mode, it doesnt do anything. What may be the problem?

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       Chris · October 19, 2015 at 16:37:46 ·

       Contact me and I’ll troubleshoot the issue.

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    1satz · October 6, 2015 at 16:36:48 ·

    Hello Chris,
    we are about to purchase the pro version, but there is one problem, do we have the possibilty to show longer text on pictures than 50 characters. We need text with up to 150 letters. Please help us. Thank you, hope to hear from you.

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       Chris · October 6, 2015 at 16:40:28 ·

       Currently, the only way to do this is to modify the code slightly. I can send you the modification upon purchase. I will also incorporate this into the plugin as a setting in a future version.

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    1satz · October 6, 2015 at 17:15:18 ·

    Thank you for the fast reply. Ok should we just buy it and contact you after that, or how can we get the modification? It would be awesome if it is possible.

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       Chris · October 7, 2015 at 06:09:53 ·

       Yes, that would be fine. I’m traveling this morning, but I’ll be back at my desk this afternoon and will be able to send you the modification via email.

13. 

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    Paul Perrin (@pperrin) · November 6, 2015 at 10:18:11 ·

    I notice the plug in strips out other images in the feed… is this important for the plugin to work?

    Is it possible for the plug in to not change a posting if it already has an image?

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       Chris · November 6, 2015 at 15:22:25 ·

       Regarding your first question, are you referring to how my plugin strips out html tags when writing text to an image? No, this isn’t important for the plugin to work, but generally users don’t want the html to be written to the image. As to your second question, if there’s already a featured image set for a post, my plugin should not create a new featured image for it.

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    Solutions · November 9, 2015 at 00:46:04 ·

    Chris, this is an amazing plugin, I am using the free edition, although it is a very good one, but it does not actually serve my needs.

    On a website, I have thousands of posts, I need to use a featured image for every one of them, they are automatically “recycled” to keep updating. The plugin works manually very well.

    My concerns:
    1- When an update happens automatically using “Old Posts Highlighter” plugin, it does not invoke “Auto Featured Image From Title”, therefore not featured image is created. Is there a way to solve it? If there is a change in the code, please let me know, I can make the change.

    2- As I have thousands of posts, it won’t be practical to create featured images for them as one go, speaking about the pro edition, therefore, they must be split into batches for example to do a predefined number from settings like “100” or any other number.
    Plus that, a category selection would even be a very good choice.

    3- Can the text color, size, font be randomized to a predefined sets? Just like images.

    Thanks a lot.

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       Chris · November 9, 2015 at 09:32:41 ·

       1. I haven’t used that plugin, so I’m not completely sure how it “updates” posts. If I were you, I’d try changing the hook that fires my plugin to either edit_post or save_post. If that doesn’t work, the only thing I can think to do would be to use the bulk process utility in the PRO version.

       2. This is already (kind of) included in the PRO version. The bulk process utility processes posts that don’t have featured images in batches of 5, then does a page refresh in order process another batch of 5, and keeps doing this until all posts have been processed. You can also specify a delay in seconds between processing a batch of posts, which could help your server not timeout. This method has been tested up to tens of thousands of posts, and works. But I could also code an option to specify the number of batches to process at a time if this method isn’t sufficient.

       3. No, but that is a good idea. I may have to consider that for a future version, or as an add-on.

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    Paul Perrin (@pperrin) · November 26, 2015 at 14:52:54 ·

    Hi,

    I have some long article titles, these seem to be causing a problem:

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8388608 bytes) in […]wp-content/plugins/auto-featured-image-from-title-pro/write_text.php on line 81

    If the text is too long it needs to drop words, or just use the posting date/time or have some other fall back.

    I use the plug it to avoid having to think about featured images – so can’t use ‘custom field’ and have to do that for every article, I need a fall back that just works.

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       Chris · December 1, 2015 at 08:59:26 ·

       Hi, I tried to email you, but the emails are being returned to me as unsent. In short, edit write_text.php and find this code:

       $auto_image_fontsize = $auto_image_fontsize + 3;

       do {
$auto_image_fontsize = $auto_image_fontsize - 3;

       Change it to this:

       $auto_image_fontsize = $auto_image_fontsize + 6;

       do {
$auto_image_fontsize = $auto_image_fontsize - 6;
if($auto_image_fontsize<1){$auto_image_fontsize='1'}

       Basically, if all the text doesn't fit on an image, my plugin attempts to resize the text down until it does fit. The problem comes in when you have such long text that the script times out before making the text small enough to all fit. This fix will cause the text to resize down twice as fast, and should therefore prevent it from timing out. If this doesn't work, try changing the 6's to 9's.

       Also, what is the text size set to in the plugin's settings? If it's something really high, like 40 or higher, then you're likely losing a lot of memory just because it has to go through several iterations before even getting the text down to any kind of usable size. Before even making this code change, I'd change the setting to something less than 30.

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    Paul Perrin (@pperrin) · November 26, 2015 at 14:54:46 ·

    ps. I also have a plug in (free) that adds featured images to the RSS feed for the site – it would be neat if your plug in did this too! One less plug in and potential conflict for me to worry about! 🙂

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       Chris · December 1, 2015 at 08:59:58 ·

       I’ve thought about doing this. It might make it’s way into a future version.

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19. 

    Wappy · December 5, 2015 at 12:26:35 ·

    This is a cool plugin I so much love it getting the pro soon

20. 

    Charmin · December 10, 2015 at 00:38:42 ·

    I had installed this plugin but I can’t able to generate the featured Image.

    I am not able to see how to generate or from where to generate featured image?

    Please Help Me ASAP.
    Thanks

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       Chris · December 10, 2015 at 06:39:21 ·

       The plugin should automatically create the featured image when you save a draft or publish a post. You can also use the tool in the plugin’s setting to bulk generate images for all of your previous posts. If these are not working, turn on error reporting in your wp_config.php file and let me know if you get any errors when you attempt to save a draft or publish a post.

21. 

    Garp · December 17, 2015 at 16:21:25 ·

    hello, I am only interested in having this plugin find, set as featured, and use the image from the post content instead of generating one. will this plugin do so? Im referring to the description of the plugin that states: ‘or content of a new or updated post or page”. Does that mean it will use one of the images already in the post? I have a popular aggregate site \ rss feed site and am having trouble using the feed posts’ images in the excerpts.

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       Chris · December 18, 2015 at 00:58:26 ·

       Not at this time, although the next version of the plugin will (almost) do as you describe. The next version will allow you to use the first image in the post as the background image, but will still create a new image with the image dimensions set in the plugin’s settings.

22. 

    Paul Perrin (@pperrin) · December 21, 2015 at 08:24:49 ·

    Great plug in – I often change titles of posts, remove the featured image and then save to generate a new one – but recently noticed that ‘remove featured image’ doesn’t unlink the image – so in the old one is still marked as used in the media library, making tidying up difficult.

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       Chris · December 21, 2015 at 08:39:51 ·

       I’ve run into this, too. This is a WordPress issue, probably intentional so that users don’t accidentally delete images they didn’t want to. But you raise a good point. Perhaps I could add an option in a future version that deletes images when they are unset as featured images. Not sure it’s possible, but a good thought.

23. 

    Gedaly · January 9, 2016 at 22:29:20 ·

    Any plans to add support for selecting Google fonts? That would be amazing!

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       Chris · January 9, 2016 at 22:33:32 ·

       Not at this time, sorry. I will look into it, though.

24. 

    Elif · February 9, 2016 at 07:17:30 ·

    Hello,

    When I choose the excerpt for generated image, the text does not get wrapped. The whole text is on a single line.

    I don’t see the same problem when I choose Title.

    This is not by design is it? How can I get rid of this behaviour?

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       Chris · February 9, 2016 at 07:27:25 ·

       What is the font size set to in the plugin’s settings? This type of image is often the result of having the size set too high. The plugin will automatically reduce the size until all the text fits. Since excerpts are longer than titles usually, that would explain why this is happening. Reduce the font size in the settings to something like 20 or 30, and you should be fine.

25. 

    Samuel · February 14, 2016 at 15:51:47 ·

    Hi! Chris! I’ve just installed Auto Featured Image From Title. Everything seems to be working except that it’s missing width and height attributes, how do I add this?

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       Chris · February 15, 2016 at 22:46:06 ·

       Hi, glad to hear the plugin is working for you. I’m not sure I completely understand the problem. Are you saying the width and height attributes are missing from my plugin’s settings, or that when the featured image is displayed, the width and height attributes aren’t set via html and/or css? If it’s the latter, this is dependent on your theme.

26. 

    Roland · February 18, 2016 at 01:52:37 ·

    Hi,
    is there a way to set random featured images for different categories?
    Regards
    Roland

    1. 

       Chris · February 20, 2016 at 14:21:40 ·

       No, but I’ve been wanting to release such a feature as an add-on. That being said, I haven’t started on it yet.

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