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How To Auto Add YouTube Video Thumbnails As Featured Images

One of the easiest ways to add a thumbnail image from your YouTube video as a featured image is to to install a plugin.

Video Thumbnails is one of the best plugins for this purpose.

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I have tested this plugin locally and it works very well and even supports Custom Posts Types.

You can use this plugin to add thumbnail images to all your archive pages and portfolio style pages as well.

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  1. Ileane says

    November 15, 2013 at 6:54 pm

    In my experience the size of the YouTube thumbnail doesn’t fit the featured image size on most themes but if you have a theme where the size works, this is perfect.

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    • Brad Dalton says

      November 16, 2013 at 12:13 pm

      That’s right and you can also set a default image in the plugins folder

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