That is not always possible due to the importing plugin. Some of them use the post creation function in a way to let QFI set the featured image; others of them are written in a way to make it not possible to find out which image to set as featured.
Which one are you using?
Thanks for the reply.
I realise its not possible as you cant control 3rd party plugins. You have a manual process where by rules can be set, for example I could do a process now to add in an image to all posts missing one. Im asking for that but on a schedule option, as well as manual.
So I could, for example, setup a schedule to run a rule I already setup, once a month to add images to all posts in cat X thats missing one, instead of manually having to login and run it (which is what I do now).
The importer Im using is Ultimate CSV Importer Free by Smackcoders. The paid for version will handle images, the free version does not. Your plugin is great, and I can fix this limitation but if I could automate it, it would be even better 🙂
I took a look in the code of your importer plugin. I do not see a chance of your requested feature, sorry.
I think you are misunderstanding
Im not asking you to look at another persons plugin and make adjustments. Im asking if you can change your own plugin, so if I set up a rule, in your plugin, that the rule can be run as a cron job later. This has nothing to do with other peoples plugins.
In the Preset Featured Images area of your plugin, I have 3 types setup, that fire when the Save button is pressed on an article. Can you add, as a feature, a chance to schedule this instead of it only firing when the save button is pressed? instead it goes through all posts, or all posts in a certain category etc.
Ok, I am understanding your question. I will look for solutions.
How often do you want the scheduler to look for new posts without featured images? Weekly, daily, twice a day, hourly?
Sorry to say that: I could not implement a scheduler because necessary functions like to download an image are not loaded under special circumstances. I have to make a break. Somewhere in the future I will make a new approach.
