Category image overwrites all post featured images
Setting a category featured image overwrites and deletes every post's own featured image in that category.
7 public reports · first reported 14 August 2019 · last reported 26 September 2022
What's going wrong
Site owners using this WordPress plugin report that assigning a default image to a category replaces the individual featured image on every post in that category. Some say deleting the category image then leaves those posts with no image at all. Several had to restore full database backups to recover their media, and one reviewer noticed the plugin's own code forces this behavior without any warning. Bloggers and small publishers who rely on unique post images are most affected. A safer tool that previews changes, asks before overwriting, and keeps originals would fix this trouble.
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Products affected
Category Featured Image.
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Who has this problem
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