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XO Featured Image Tools
Speed meets silence in this lightweight bulk image tool.
HealthyGrowing
74/100
Users appreciate the fast bulk processing despite occasional bugs and silent developers.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.7★
21 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+69%
Growing fast
29 → 49 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +69% in the last year
29/day a year ago→49/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayXO Featured Image Tools is a well-regarded lightweight plugin for bulk-setting featured images from post content, trusted by users with large post libraries, though a small number of users report it breaking or producing no results on certain WordPress versions.
What people like
- +Works reliably for bulk-setting featured images across large numbers of posts×4
- +Fast processing even on large post libraries (1000+ posts)×2
- +Simple setup with clean, lightweight options×3
- +Preserves existing manually-set featured images when running bulk operations
Common complaints
- −Reported as completely non-functional for some users — progress bar completes but no featured images are set
- −Broken behavior on WP 5.9.3, returning 'Posts not found' and inconsistent results (since 5.9.3)
- −Support is unresponsive, with forum topics closed and no replies from the developer×2
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.70★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 21 total
Latest reviews · 21 analyzed
- 2024-08-01★★★★★The bestCs
- 2024-04-14★★★★★Does not work at alledwinkort
- 2023-12-01★★★★★Works perfectUri Lazcano
- 2023-02-09★★★★★Fantastic!Integrantsvs
- 2022-11-24★★★★★Perfect tool with suggestion for improvementatallen
- 2022-09-21★★★★★Easy to use without buyingmalagebidi
- 2021-11-24★★★★★Simple is the best!Senri Miura
- 2021-04-18★★★★★Easy setup. It works great!pebro
- 2021-02-25★★★★★Greatpipdig
- 2021-02-16★★★★★Go!televizor
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
45
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
48
Prior 7-day baseline
43
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
53
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-6.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.06
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.71 → 4.70★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered