WPSSO Inherit Parent Metadata

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.

WPSSO Core Plugin Required

WPSSO Inherit Parent Metadata (aka WPSSO IPM) is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin. WPSSO Core and its add-ons make sure your content looks best on social sites and in search results, no matter how webpages are shared, re-shared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

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 3.6.0 (2021/03/08)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • Added backwards compatibility with the classic editor.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v4.7.
  • WPSSO Core v8.25.2.

Version 3.5.1 (2021/02/25)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • Updated the banners and icons of WPSSO Core and its add-ons.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • None.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v4.7.
  • WPSSO Core v8.23.0.

Version 3.5.0 (2020/12/02)

• New Features
  • None.
• Improvements
  • None.
• Bugfixes
  • None.
• Developer Notes
  • Included the $addon argument for library class constructors.
• Requires At Least
  • PHP v7.0.
  • WordPress v4.7.
  • WPSSO Core v8.16.0.