AI Featured Image Generator creates AI-powered featured images right from the WordPress editor. Click “Generate Featured Image” on any post and the plugin builds a unique image from your post title, chosen style, and optional custom prompt, using OpenAI, Stability AI, or Grok/xAI on the free plan, or Google Gemini and Meta Muse on Pro.

Every image gets alt text automatically and an SEO-friendly filename based on your post title. Generate one at a time in the editor, in bulk, straight from the Posts list, inline in your content with the AI Image Generator block, or by asking an AI assistant such as Claude Desktop or Cursor through MCP. Everything is managed from one settings hub.

On Pro, the plugin also makes product images for WooCommerce: it turns each product’s real photo into studio, showroom, lifestyle or 3D store images, one product at a time or the whole shop in bulk.

Video Walkthrough

Free Features

3 free AI providers: OpenAI, Stability AI, and Grok/xAI (Google Gemini and Meta Muse available on Pro)
OpenAI models: GPT Image 2 (default): excels at text rendering in multiple languages, visual reasoning and multi-object scenes
Stability AI: Stable Image Core with 16 native style presets (Photographic, Cinematic, Anime, Digital Art, Comic Book, Fantasy Art, and more)
Grok/xAI: Grok Imagine Image: fast and affordable at $0.02 per image
21 style presets: Common (None, Realistic, Artistic, Cartoon, Minimalist), Creative (Sketch, Watercolor, 3D Render, Pixel Art, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Anime, Technicolor), and Trending (Toy Figure, Miniature World, Claymation, Cinematic, Lo-Fi Cozy, Vintage Instant Photo, Magazine Collage, Paper Cut)
Custom prompts: plus one-click Generate Prompt from Content, which crafts an AI-optimized prompt from your post title and body (OpenAI and Grok free; Gemini and Meta Muse on Pro)
7 image sizes with GPT Image 2 and 2.6: square, portrait, landscape, widescreen 16:9, vertical 9:16, ultra-wide 3:1, and tall banner 1:3
All aspect ratios: 9 for Stability AI and 9 for Grok, plus 2K resolution on Grok
Output control (OpenAI): WebP/PNG/JPEG format, compression slider (1–100), and Low/Medium/High generation quality (Extra High and Max on GPT Image 2.6, Pro)
Text control: allow or block text, captions, and words in generated images
Auto alt text: from the post title, the prompt, or a custom template with {title}, {prompt}, {style}, and {site_name} placeholders. with an option to preserve manual edits on regeneration
Bulk Generate: unlimited images for Posts and Pages that have no featured image yet, as many at once as you like
Generate from Post List: an “AI Featured Image” column on the Posts/Pages list with a one-click Generate/Regenerate link, so there is no need to open the editor
Image Audit counts: see how many of your images have no alt text, are over 600 KB, are still JPG or PNG instead of WebP, or look blurry or cut off (fixing them is Pro)
Inline images: the AI Image Generator block adds AI images anywhere in your Gutenberg content, with its own settings tab
AI assistants (MCP): connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code or VS Code and ask them in plain words, starting with “On ,” to make featured images, make any image for the Media Library, find posts and images, audit your images (missing alt text, size, format, blur, cut-off edges) and fix alt text, titles and captions. A 3-step setup on the AI Assistants tab, 20 assistant images on the free plan
Multisite compatible

Pro Features 🚀

Product Images (WooCommerce): turn a product’s real photo into clean store images: Studio, Showroom, Lifestyle or 3D shots in the mood you pick, with a white, light grey, beige, custom colour or transparent background for studio shots. The product itself is kept exactly as it is. Make a main image plus gallery set in one click from the product page, or run the whole shop in bulk. Nothing changes on the product until you choose, and the original images can always be put back
Match product photos to your style: in Bulk images on the Product Images tab, remake only the main and gallery photos whose background, shape, size or file type does not match your style, each from that same photo and in the same place. Photos that already match are left alone, and the originals are always kept
Animated and vector images (GPT Image 2.6): make a featured or inline image as an animated GIF, generate inline images and your Brand Kit logo as SVG, and choose how much the model plans each picture with the new Planning Detail setting
Listen to this post (audio): turn any post into a narrated recording with ElevenLabs, Grok or Google Gemini voices, play a sample of each voice first, and show a player above the content. Long posts are read in parts and joined into one file, and the editor tells you when the post changed since the recording
Podcast feed: publish your recordings as a podcast. Submit the feed address once to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Amazon Music or any other podcast app, and each new recording appears there as an episode by itself
Image Audit: list every image with missing alt text, a large file, a JPG or PNG format, blur or cut-off edges, then fill all missing alt text at once from your Alt Text settings, convert images to WebP, and edit alt text, titles and captions right in the list
Auto-generate on publish: a post published without a featured image gets one automatically a few seconds later, made with your current settings and Brand Kit, with the option to write the prompt from the post content
Google Gemini: Nano Banana 2.1 (Google’s newest, fast and about half the price of Nano Banana 2), Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro) and Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash, deprecated by Google but still available): up to 4K resolution and 10 aspect ratios
Meta Muse (beta): Muse Image 1.0, Meta’s reasoning image model at $0.01 per image, with 9 aspect ratios and native WebP, PNG or JPEG output
Unlimited AI assistant images (MCP): plus Pro tools for assistants: set a featured image from the Media Library, insert an image into a post, upscale, remove background, rename images, convert JPG or PNG to WebP, make a narrated recording of a post, make WooCommerce product images from the product’s photo and check them against your look, and manage the Brand Kit (read it, change colours, tone and logo placement, preview it, stamp the logo onto existing featured images and undo that, or set it up from what the site already says about itself)
GPT Image 2.6 (OpenAI): GPT Image 2.6 Flare (fast, recommended) and GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (best detail), with Extra High and Max generation quality and a one-click “Retry with Sunburst” button in the post editor
Image upscaling (Stability AI): Conservative (faithful 4x), Creative (AI-enhanced 4K), or Fast (quick 4x), right from the post editor
Background removal (Stability AI): one click isolates the subject and saves a transparent PNG as your featured image
Advanced Stability AI models: Stable Image Ultra and SD 3.5 Large / Large Turbo / Medium / Flash
Negative prompts (Stability AI): exclude unwanted elements, e.g. “blurry, watermark, text, low quality”
Grok Imagine Image 2.0: higher quality at $0.04 per image
Grok Imagine Image Quality: top tier at $0.05 per image
More output formats: PNG/JPEG/WebP for Stability AI, and automatic WebP conversion for Gemini and Grok images
More Bulk Generate: any post type, filters for date range and thumbnail status, overwrite existing images, and the Brand Kit
Custom post types: enable generation for any public post type
Custom styles: create named styles with your own prompt descriptions, available in every style dropdown
Brand Kit: save your brand colors, a style description, tone, and avoid-rules, plus an optional reference image (used by Google Gemini) and a logo watermark (corners or centre, with size, opacity, margin and offset controls plus a live preview), applied automatically to every image you generate (animated GIF and SVG images skip the logo), with a per-image “Use Brand Kit” toggle to skip it

Want to unlock WooCommerce product images, Google Gemini, Meta Muse, post audio, image upscaling, background removal, the Brand Kit, unlimited AI assistant images and more? Upgrade to Pro here.

Requirements

WordPress 6.6 or higher
PHP 7.4 or higher
For Product Images (Pro): WooCommerce
An API key for at least one provider:
- OpenAI (free plan)
- Stability AI (free plan)
- Grok/xAI (free plan)
- Google Gemini (Pro only)
- Meta Muse (Pro only)
For post audio (Pro): an ElevenLabs API key, or the Grok or Gemini key you already use
For AI assistants (MCP): WordPress 6.9 or higher and the free MCP Adapter plugin, installed in one click from the AI Assistants tab

External Services

This plugin connects to your chosen AI provider’s API to generate images. For every provider:

Your post title and content (or your custom prompt, and for Stability AI any negative prompt) are sent to the provider’s API when you generate an image
Your API key for that provider authenticates each request
Requests are sent when you generate: from the post editor, the Posts list, Bulk Generate, the AI Image Generator block, the AI Product Images box, Product Images bulk, the Brand Kit logo generator, or an AI assistant. With Auto-generate on publish (Pro) turned on, a request is also sent in the background when a post is published without a featured image
Test Connection on the settings page sends your API key to that provider to check it
“Generate Prompt from Content” sends your post title and body to the provider’s text API: gpt-6-luna (OpenAI), grok-4.7 (Grok), Gemini 3.6 Flash (Gemini, Pro), or Muse Spark 1.3 (Meta Muse, Pro)
“Listen to this post” (Pro) sends your post title and text to the voice provider you chose on the Audio tab (ElevenLabs, Grok or Google Gemini) when you click Generate audio, play a voice sample, or ask an AI assistant for a recording
Product Images (Pro) sends the product photo you start from and the style you chose to OpenAI (images/edits) or Google Gemini when you make a product image, run Bulk images, or ask an AI assistant. For a transparent background made with Gemini, the image is then sent to Stability AI to remove the background
Vector (SVG) images (Pro) also send your prompt to the OpenAI text model gpt-6-luna, which writes the drawing
With the Brand Kit on (Pro), the Brand Kit text and your reference image are sent to Google Gemini with each Gemini image request

OpenAI (Free & Pro): image generation and prompt generation.
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Stability AI (Free & Pro): image generation; for Pro users, upscaling and background removal also send your existing featured image file to Stability AI for processing, and Product Images sends a new product image there to make its background transparent.
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Grok / xAI (Free & Pro): image generation and prompt generation; for Pro users, post audio (text to speech), and the Grok voice list is read with your key.
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Google Gemini (Pro only): image generation, prompt generation and post audio (text to speech).
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Meta Muse (Pro only): image generation (Muse Image 1.0) and prompt generation (Muse Spark 1.3) through the Meta Model API.
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ElevenLabs (Pro only): post audio (text to speech). Your post title and text, the voice you chose and your ElevenLabs API key are sent when you make a recording or play a voice sample. The voice list is read with the same key.
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AI assistants (MCP): your own assistant app (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code) connects to your site with a WordPress Application Password and calls the same providers above with your keys. Images are only generated when you ask the assistant. The posts and image previews the assistant reads go to that assistant’s provider, under its own terms.

Freemius (Free & Pro): licensing, updates for Pro, and the optional opt-in. If you opt in, or when a Pro licence is activated or checked, your site address, WordPress and PHP versions, plugin version, admin name and email are sent to Freemius.
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Data usage: generated images are stored in your WordPress media library. No personal data is stored by the providers beyond what’s necessary for API processing. You are responsible for ensuring your content complies with the selected provider’s usage policies.