WPSSO Inherit Parent Metadata | Add-on

Inherit featured and custom images from parents for posts, pages, custom post types, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.

Featured Image

If no featured image has been selected — for a post, page, or custom post type — this add-on will assign the first featured image found from its parent, grand-parent, great-grand-parent, etc.

WordPress does not offer featured images for taxonomy terms (categories, tags, and custom taxonomies) — to assign a custom image to a term, select an image in the Document SSO metabox when editing a term. The WPSSO IPM add-on will cascade the custom image(s) to the children of that term, along with the children of those children, etc.

Custom Images

If no custom image has been selected in the Document SSO metabox — for a post, page, custom post type, category, tag, or custom taxonomy — this add-on will assign the first custom image found (if any) from its parent, grand-parent, great-grand-parent, etc.

Inherited images are assigned as default values — you can always edit any child to select a different featured or custom image (which will then be inherited by its own children).

The Inherit Parent Metadata (aka WPSSO IPM) add-on makes no permanent changes — simply deactivate the plugin to disable the inherited image feature. ;-)

There is no add-on settings page for this plugin — simply install and activate the plugin.

Coded for Performance

The WPSSO IPM add-on uses the WordPress wp_cache_get() and update_meta_cache() functions for maximum performance and integrate fully with WordPress core functionality.

WPSSO Core Plugin Required

WPSSO Inherit Parent Metadata (aka WPSSO IPM) is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin.

Install and Uninstall

• Install the WPSSO Inherit Parent Metadata add-on.
• Uninstall the WPSSO Inherit Parent Metadata add-on.

Version Numbering

Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]

• {major} = Major structural code changes / re-writes or incompatible API changes.
• {minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
• {bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
• {stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).

Standard Version Repositories

• GitHub
• WordPress.org

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 3.1.0 (2020/05/09)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Refactored the required plugin check to (optionally) check the class name and a version constant.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v5.6.
  • WordPress v4.7.
  • WPSSO Core v7.5.0.

Version 3.0.0 (2020/04/21)

• New Features
  • Added a new WPSSOIPM_POST_METADATA_KEYS constant to define an array of inherited post metadata keys.
• Improvements
  • Added the custom Pinterest image from the Document SSO metabox to the list of inherited images.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v5.6.
  • WordPress v4.7.
  • WPSSO Core v7.3.0.