ZubFeat AI Featured Image generates a featured image inside the WordPress editor from the post title — or the title plus a short excerpt. Use your own OpenAI or OpenRouter API key. If you have no key yet, a local branded template is available as a basic non-AI fallback (not a substitute for AI artwork).

The plugin does not charge you, and your key is not sent to us. Paste a key, pick a quality level, and click Generate. The image is saved as the normal WordPress featured image, so your theme — and page builders such as Elementor — display it.

What you can do

OpenAI Images — Fast, Cheapest, or Highest quality, or pick another image model.
OpenRouter — one key for several image models, with the same quality levels.
Your own model id — kept when you switch back to a quality level.
Aspect ratio — Automatic matches the theme’s featured image, or choose 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 1:1, or 2:3.
Prompt — title only, or title plus a short excerpt.
Branded template — a local title card if you have no API key yet. It is a basic fallback, not AI artwork.

How to get an API key

You pay OpenAI or OpenRouter for each image. A typical image costs a small amount of credit on your account.

OpenAI

Create an account at platform.openai.com. This is separate from ChatGPT.
Add a payment method under Billing.
Open API keys and create a secret key. It starts with sk-.
Paste it under Settings ZubFeat AI Featured Image OpenAI and save.

OpenRouter

Create an account at openrouter.ai.
Add a little credit.
Open API keys and create a key.
Paste it under Settings ZubFeat AI Featured Image OpenRouter and save. One key covers every image model in the list.

How to use

Install and activate ZubFeat AI Featured Image.
Go to Settings ZubFeat AI Featured Image and paste a key.
Edit a post and enter a title.
In the sidebar, under Featured Image, click Generate from title.

The same control is in the classic editor sidebar.

Page builders

Generate from the WordPress post screen (Edit), not from inside the Elementor canvas. Elementor then shows the featured image WordPress stored. Elementor’s own Generate with Elementor AI is a separate product and uses Elementor’s AI plan.

Privacy

API keys are stored in your WordPress database. Requests go from your server to OpenAI or OpenRouter only when you generate (or optionally improve a prompt). This plugin does not track visitors, does not send analytics, and does not proxy keys or content through the author’s servers.

External services

This plugin can connect to third-party AI services when you choose them and click Generate (or enable “Improve the prompt first”). You bring your own API keys. Nothing is sent until you take those actions.

OpenAI — Used to generate featured images via the Images API, and optionally to rewrite the image brief via the Chat Completions API when “Improve the prompt first” is enabled. When you generate, your site sends the image prompt (derived from the post title and optional excerpt), model/size settings, and your OpenAI API key from your server to OpenAI. Terms of use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use — Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

OpenRouter — Used as an alternative image provider (one key for several image models). When you generate with OpenRouter selected, your site sends the image prompt, model/aspect settings, and your OpenRouter API key from your server to OpenRouter. Terms of service: https://openrouter.ai/terms — Privacy policy: https://openrouter.ai/privacy

The branded template fallback runs entirely on your WordPress site and does not call these services.