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wp-random-post-thumbnails

WP Random Post Thumbnails

Allows you to select images to be shown at random for posts without a featured image.

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Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.89
Error on activting plugin

Error on activting plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error on activting plugin Hi, I looked at this plugin as it might be just what I need for a simple project that is invariably turning out to be much much longer than I wanted it to be, but hey ho!
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.63
Critical Error – syntax error

WP Random Post Thumbnails suddenly caused a site critical parse error, and the maintainer patched it in version 2.6.3.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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is suddenly causing a critical error on my site.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
After initial set-up, settings page shows blank

After initial set-up, settings page shows blank: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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After initial set-up, settings page shows blank After installing and setting up your plug-in, and defining the set of random images from the media library, everything worked great!
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
I have 20,000 something posts most without feature images

I have 20,000 something posts most without feature images: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I have 20,000 something posts most without feature images Hi, I have 20,000 something posts most without feature images.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Plugin conflict

Plugin conflict: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Plugin conflict I recently installed your plugin and it accomplishes exactly what I need for random fallback featured images for my pages/posts.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
PHP Warning: Invalid argument

PHP Warning: Invalid argument: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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PHP Warning: Invalid argument Hello, I have seen a few forums regarding a similar issue.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Random image based on category?

Random image based on category?: users show bugs, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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🙂 Hi I love your plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Is this plugin abandoned?

Is this plugin abandoned?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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It’s pretty great and no one else is doing this but I noticed not tested in 4.5.2.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
PHP Error – Invalid Argument foreach()

PHP Error – Invalid Argument foreach(): users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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PHP Error – Invalid Argument foreach() Getting the following error on activation.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.79
Difficulties when installing the plugin

Difficulties when installing the plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Difficulties when installing the plugin Hi WP Random Post Thumbnails plugin Team, I have downloaded the plugin and when I install it, my website crushes.

Competitor Context

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Regenerate Thumbnails weak incumbent · intel 74.6 · weakness 57.5
weak incumbent
9 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test thumbnails embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
source 1 source 2
Auto Featured Image (Auto Post Thumbnail) weak incumbent · intel 71.7 · weakness 55.8
weak incumbent
below-average rating 29 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Crop-Thumbnails weak incumbent · intel 70.7 · weakness 55.2
weak incumbent
2 unresolved support thread(s) 16 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check media library publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Genesis Featured Images praise owner · intel 61.2 · weakness 46.2
praise owner
stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect genesis layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
Quick Featured Images praise owner · intel 57.6 · weakness 34.9
praise owner
3 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check media library publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Latest Posts praise owner · intel 50.2 · weakness 26.9
praise owner
2 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Acme Fix Images – Regenerate Thumbnails watchlist · intel 38.9 · weakness 41.5
watchlist
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) reliable 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1

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Collected Signals

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mixed Critical Error – syntax error support · 2025-07-27T10:21:37+00:00 · high severity · post thumbnails

WP Random Post Thumbnails suddenly caused a site critical parse error, and the maintainer patched it in version 2.6.3.

Evidence: is suddenly causing a critical error on my site.
bugs support random thumbnails parsing content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Hope for an update? support · 2021-05-26T05:45:38+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Hope for an update?: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.” I wonder if the developers might update it, or at least test it, so that users can feel safe using it?
bugs support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Awesome random feature image (5 stars) review · 2021-04-27T23:34:42+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Awesome random feature image: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Awesome random feature image Random Post feature image Random Post feature image
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Good Plugins (5 stars) review · 2020-06-19T03:54:18+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Good Plugins: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Good Plugins it real help me it real help me
support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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neutral Problems with featured images support · 2020-03-31T16:37:22+00:00 · low severity · post thumbnails

Problems with featured images: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Problems with featured images Hi,I use the plugin “WP Random Post Thumbnails”,and have some problems.
missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint How to retrieve the url of the image support · 2020-01-01T22:51:30+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

How to retrieve the url of the image: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: How to retrieve the url of the image Hello, I would like to know how I can retrieve the url of the image displayed on the articles.
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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neutral Howto : Random image based on category? support · 2019-11-01T08:51:34+00:00 · low severity · post thumbnails

Howto : Random image based on category?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Howto : Random image based on category? Hello ! I have two categories and two sets of images. Could you please tell me how to assign a set of images to a specific category.. Sorry to bother i have tried to figure out but failed to solve my problem This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Rémi Brandini . Hello ! I have two categories and two sets of i
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Ignoring posts which have first image as featured image support · 2019-06-01T17:10:24+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Ignoring posts which have first image as featured image: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Ignoring posts which have first image as featured image Thank you for sharing this nice plugin.
compatibility missing feature quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Very nice and easy! (5 stars) review · 2019-05-30T22:35:15+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Very nice and easy!: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very nice and easy!
missing feature easy content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise A Great Plugin (5 stars) review · 2019-01-08T15:28:21+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

A Great Plugin: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: A Great Plugin Thanks, this is a great plugin and does what it says.
easy quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed custom css? support · 2018-11-13T23:09:23+00:00 · low severity · post thumbnails

custom css?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: it would be a great idea if you add a custom class to the random image… something like class=”WP-Rand-Post-Thumb” That would allow us to customize the images display to suit our needs and themes.
compatibility quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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neutral Forbidden error support · 2018-06-02T13:16:27+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Forbidden error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Forbidden error When I try to save any images for any random rotation, I get this error after click on submit button: Forbidden You do not have permission to access this document.
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed After initial set-up, settings page shows blank support · 2018-04-21T23:11:31+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

After initial set-up, settings page shows blank: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: After initial set-up, settings page shows blank After installing and setting up your plug-in, and defining the set of random images from the media library, everything worked great!
bugs compatibility performance missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed PHP Warning: Invalid argument support · 2018-04-12T08:35:15+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

PHP Warning: Invalid argument: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Warning: Invalid argument Hello, I have seen a few forums regarding a similar issue.
bugs compatibility support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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neutral Suggestion – class-wprpt.php support · 2017-12-06T17:55:56+00:00 · low severity · post thumbnails

Suggestion – class-wprpt.php: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Suggestion – class-wprpt.php In the __construct conditional of WPRPT class if ( !
compatibility content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Very good! (5 stars) review · 2017-11-20T13:14:51+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Very good!: users praise easy, value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: This is simple and objective.
easy value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Random Background Image? support · 2017-10-28T16:24:20+00:00 · low severity · post thumbnails

Random Background Image?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This is my Hero HTML <div class="header_random-image"> <div id="hero"></div> </div> I would like to insert a random background-image using this CSS #hero { background-image: url( RANDOM IMAGE INSIDE HERE ); background-size: cover; background-position: 50% 30%; height:70vh; width: 100%; margin-top: -65px; } To use it as a background-image I need to output jus
compatibility missing feature support quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Difficulties when installing the plugin support · 2017-10-06T12:16:55+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Difficulties when installing the plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Difficulties when installing the plugin Hi WP Random Post Thumbnails plugin Team, I have downloaded the plugin and when I install it, my website crushes.
bugs compatibility support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Plugin conflict support · 2017-07-19T17:10:15+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Plugin conflict: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin conflict I recently installed your plugin and it accomplishes exactly what I need for random fallback featured images for my pages/posts.
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Essential Grid support · 2017-07-06T16:35:20+00:00 · medium severity · post thumbnails

Essential Grid: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This is an awesome plugin that honestly is the only good option for this functionality out there!
missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check post thumbnails publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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