Title: Featured Image
Author: Mervin Praison
Published: <strong>19 de Marzo de  2012</strong>
Last modified: 8 de Noviembre de  2025

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# Featured Image

 Por [Mervin Praison](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mervinpraison/)

[Descargar](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/featured-image.2.2.zip)

 * [Detalles](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/#description)
 * [Reseñas](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/#reviews)
 *  [Instalación](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/#installation)
 * [Desarrollo](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/#developers)

 [Soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/)

## Descripción

Add featured image to any part of the website, on each individual post/page. Very
Easy to Implement. Provides you with a featured image shortcode [ featured-img ],
code and Featured Image widget.

Paste the Code or the Shortcode on any part of the website.

 * Very Easy to implement.
 * Simple Shortcode Available
 * Easy code Implementation inside loop and outside loop.
 * Widge Avaliable
 * Featured Image Caption

[WordPress Featured Image](https://mer.vin/wordpress-featured-image) Documentation
By [Mervin](https://mer.vin/) Praison
 [SEO Manager](https://seomanageruk.com)

### Version history

#### version 2.2

 * Security: Fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-12019)
 * Fixed: Added missing global $post in caption function
 * Improved: Enhanced security with proper output escaping

#### version 2.1

 * global $post fix

#### Version 2.0

 * Added Featured Image Caption
 * Added Alt Text for images
 * Fixed Bugs

#### Version 1.0

 * Initial release version.

## Capturas de pantalla

 * [[
 * Featured Image area

## Instalación

#### Step 1

 1. Download the zip file
 2. Extract the contents
 3. Upload the folder `featured-image` to your WP plugin folder `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory
 4. Go to Plugins > Plugins, and activate the plugin

#### Step 2

 * Use this shortcode ‘[featured-img]’ on your page/post content.
 * Use this shortcode ‘[featured-img-caption]’ on your page/post content for caption
 * Use this Code on your template inside loop:

## FAQ

### What is its Shortcode?

[featured-img]

## Reseñas

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7d53c34864286db6c1e0cd1130a2347e7c105b76a1307f7c8c67a61a988f6437?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-plugin-5030/)󠁿

 [markmuller](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markmuller/) 25 de Febrero de 2021

Does what is should do. I just added a check in the code, i do not want the last
post image in my sidebar on archive pages. if (!is_single()) return;

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/31adb015f42f20f4c04d6b4b669e2d3ada2a46c0cdbbbd82aa6498eb7ee09a81?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good plugin but does have some php warnings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-plugin-but-does-have-some-php-warnings/)󠁿

 [Justin Dixon](https://profiles.wordpress.org/justin-dixon/) 2 de Agosto de 2017
1 respuesta

The plugin does what it is supposed to do, however, there are some errors generated
that can be easily fixed by adding “global $post;” to the top of the plugins function“
getting_featured_img”.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cb7d53b8c5d999a121a2187adcbb32d26d2aa8009f5f0b46f1b37287c4ea79ce?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Awesome](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-3587/)󠁿

 [Lohith M](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lohith-m/) 3 de Septiembre de 2016

Its really great plugin. It works as i expected thanks

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/05fad3889f6033fc7474696a41b2ca5695bba637d2dac1d8b8e49e6595bb0bb3?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Nice](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-1355/)󠁿

 [Mervin Praison](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mervinpraison/) 3 de Septiembre
de 2016

Nice

 [ Leer los 8 comentarios ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/)

## Colaboradores & Desarrolladores

“Featured Image” es software de código abierto. Las siguientes personas han contribuido
a este plugin.

Colaboradores

 *   [ Mervin Praison ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mervinpraison/)

[Traduce “Featured Image” a tu idioma.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/featured-image)

### ¿Interesado en el desarrollo?

[Revisa el código](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/), 
echa un vistazo al [repositorio SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/featured-image/),
o suscríbete al [registro de desarrollo](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-image/)
por [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/featured-image/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Historial de cambios

#### version 2.2

 * Security: Fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in image alt 
   text and URLs (CVE-2025-12019)
 * Security: Added proper output escaping using esc_url() and esc_attr()
 * Security: Added wp_kses_post() sanitization for caption output
 * Fixed: Added missing global $post declaration in caption function
 * Fixed: Improved error handling in caption function
 * Improved: Code formatting and WordPress coding standards compliance

#### version 2.1

 * global $post fix

#### Version 2.0

 * Added Featured Image Caption
 * Added Alt Text for images
 * Fixed Bugs

#### Version 1.0

 * First release.= 2.2 =
 * Security: Fixed Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in image metadata(
   CVE-2025-12019)
 * Security: Added esc_url() for image URLs
 * Security: Added esc_attr() for alt text attributes
 * Security: Added wp_kses_post() for caption sanitization
 * Fixed: Missing global $post declaration in getting_featured_img_caption()
 * Fixed: Improved error handling to prevent PHP warnings
 * Improved: Code refactored to use sprintf() for better readability
 * Improved: WordPress coding standards compliance

#### 2.1

 * global $post fix

#### 2.0

 * Added Featured Image Caption
 * Fixed Bugs

#### 1.0

 * Shortcode was created
 * Code inside loop of the template
 * Widget was created

## Meta

 *  Versión **2.2**
 *  Última actualización **hace 5 meses**
 *  Instalaciones activas **1,000+**
 *  Versión de WordPress ** 3.0 o superior **
 *  Probado hasta **6.8.5**
 *  Idioma
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/)
 * Etiquetas
 * [featured image](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-image/)[image](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image/)
   [seo](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)[shortcode](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
   [widget](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Vista Avanzada](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/advanced/)

## Calificaciones

 4.4 de 5 estrellas.

 *  [  6 valoraciones de 5 estrellas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 valoración de 4 estrellas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 valoraciones de 3 estrellas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 valoraciones de 2 estrellas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 valoración de 1 estrellas     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/#new-post)

[Ver todas las reseñas](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/reviews/)

## Colaboradores

 *   [ Mervin Praison ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mervinpraison/)

## Soporte

¿Tienes algo que decir? ¿Necesitas ayuda?

 [Ver el foro de soporte](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image/)

## Donar

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