New: site-wide coverage. Your homepage, archive pages, category and tag pages, and author pages can now have real screenshot OG images too – pages that have no featured image by definition, so template-based approaches have nothing to show there. Configure them in the new Site-wide Pages section under Settings. Homepage coverage is free; archive, taxonomy and author pages are Premium.
New: each site-wide page can use a screenshot, a custom image, or stay off – and enabled pages join the scheduled refresh, Regenerate All and the Dashboard tables like any post.
Improved: the Settings section shows a live page count next to each taxonomy before you enable it, so you can see the screenshot cost of a toggle up front.
2.6.2
Improved: failed screenshots now explain themselves. The editor sidebar and the Dashboard Failed table show what went wrong in plain language, with a short what-to-do hint and a direct link to the matching troubleshooting guide for the common causes.
Improved: the Dashboard now tells you up front when screenshots have failed, when captures are completing via the slower polling fallback (a sign your host may be blocking the plugin’s callback), and when the capture queue is waiting on a stalled WP-Cron.
Fixed: the licence-expired notice showed a raw data snippet instead of the plain message.
2.6.1
Improved: Regenerate All and the daily refresh now work through large sites much faster on standard shared hosting. The queue keeps itself moving in the background instead of waiting for WP-Cron between batches, which stays in place as a safety net.
Improved: a brand-new post’s first screenshot is now captured right away on quiet sites, instead of waiting for the next visitor to trigger WP-Cron.
2.6.0
New (Premium): custom capture URL per post. Point a post’s screenshot at a different https URL – including one on another domain – from the Capture Overrides panel in the block editor. Ideal for portfolio or case-study posts where the page worth showing is the client site itself. Cross-domain capture requires an active paid licence.
New: Clear cached screenshot button in the block editor sidebar. Deletes the cached image and resets the status without queueing a fresh capture, so no quota is used – the scheduled refresh or your next content update re-captures when you are ready.
New: favicon check. Once a week the plugin checks whether your site serves a favicon and shows a dismissible note on the Dashboard if not – chat platforms such as Slack, Discord and WhatsApp show a broken globe icon next to the link preview without one. Informational only; captures are never blocked or delayed.
2.5.3
New: image previews in the Dashboard’s Recent screenshot activity table. Click a thumbnail to open the full-size capture in a lightbox.
New: the Recent screenshot activity table now shows the Image source for each page (Auto-screenshot, Featured image, Custom image, and so on), and the Pending table shows how many submission attempts a capture has made.
Improved: the Dashboard tables now follow the standard WordPress list-table conventions – hover any row for the usual Edit and View actions.
Improved: the Regenerate All Screenshots button now sits directly under the status cards instead of below the activity tables, where it was easy to miss.
Changed: the plugin’s display name is now “PlugUpp Dynamic OG Image Generator”.
2.5.0
Improved: redesigned Logs tab with a cleaner toolbar, a new “Errors and warnings” log level, and level-coloured entries.
Changed: the log file now lives at uploads/dynamic-og-image-generator/dynamic-og-image-generator.log, and downloaded logs get a self-identifying, timestamped filename.
Fixed: a possible error when the plugin tried to record a warning while checking your usage data.
Improved: clearer “Custom post types” heading on the Settings page (Premium).
2.4.1
Improved: screenshot job polling now runs on a dedicated 15-minute schedule, decoupled from bulk processing. Pending captures are checked on a predictable cadence even when no bulk work is driving WP-Cron, giving more consistent recovery on hosts where callbacks are blocked or WP-Cron fires intermittently.
2.4.0
New: Image source picker. Pick how each page’s og:image is sourced – Auto-screenshot (the previous default), Featured image, Featured image with screenshot fallback, Custom image from your Media Library, or Off – per post from the block editor sidebar, and per content type from the Settings page. Featured and Custom modes do not consume your screenshot quota.
New: top-level OG Images menu. Settings live under OG Images > Settings instead of the previous Settings > Dynamic OG Images path. New Dashboard sub-page shows plan and quota at a glance, plus recent activity, pending captures, and failed captures with reasons.
New: bulk Image Source actions on the Posts and Pages list screens. Five variants – Auto-screenshot, Featured image, Featured image (with screenshot when missing), Off, and Reset to default – replacing the previous Enable / Disable / Reset trio.
New: featured-image dimensions warning in the block editor sidebar. When the chosen Featured or Custom image is below 200×200 (the floor where major social platforms start skipping thumbnails), the sidebar flags it inline. No behaviour change, just a heads-up.
Changed: cached screenshots are automatically cleaned up when no longer used. When a post’s resolved Image source is no longer Auto-screenshot or Featured-with-fallback, the cached file is kept for a 14-day grace period and then deleted by a weekly background sweep. Flip back inside the grace window and the cache is preserved with no quota burn.
Changed: screenshot quota is only used when the resolved Image source actually needs a screenshot. The daily refresh sweep, Regenerate All, post-update auto-regen, and the block editor Regenerate Now button all skip posts in Featured / Custom / Off modes (and Featured-with-fallback posts that already have a Featured image).
Migrated: existing installs keep their previous Enable Sitewide setting on upgrade. Posts and Pages that were Enabled before 2.4.0 map to Auto-screenshot; Disabled maps to Off. Per-post overrides are preserved.
2.3.0
Fixed: the Dynamic OG Image sidebar widget now appears on every public custom post type in the Premium build, not only the ones ticked under Settings > Custom post types. The override surfaces (sidebar widget, REST meta, bulk actions) work the same way Posts and Pages do – the sitewide tick controls automatic processing, but the per-post override capability is always available. Customers can now opt in individual items on a CPT (e.g. one specific Product) without having to enable the whole CPT for the sweep.
Added: a dismissible notice when Page Generator Pro is detected on the same site. PGP-generated pages draw from the monthly screenshot quota along with hand-written content, which on large catalogues can exhaust the allowance silently. The notice links to a new capacity-planning guide covering post-type exclusions, refresh intervals, and per-page overrides for high-page-count sites.
2.2.1
Refined: small layout polish on the Custom post types row of the Settings page – each available type now sits on its own line for legibility, matching the Posts and Pages checkboxes above.
2.2.0
Changed: the “Enable sitewide” setting is now split into separate “for Posts” and “for Pages” checkboxes. Sites usually want to treat Posts (which often have featured images already) differently from Pages (bare landing pages where the screenshot is the differentiator); the split lets you opt one in and leave the other off. Existing sites are migrated automatically – whatever your previous “Enable sitewide” setting was, both new checkboxes inherit it on first load. Both still default to off on fresh installs so a new site never starts consuming quota before you have consciously opted in.
Added: bulk actions on the standard Posts and Pages list screens (Bulk actions dropdown). Three actions: “Enable Dynamic OG image”, “Disable Dynamic OG image”, and “Reset Dynamic OG to default”. Select any number of rows – including the full set produced by a built-in or third-party list filter, such as a category, tag, or Page Generator Pro’s filter – and apply the action across all of them in one click. Drives the same per-post override the OG Image panel in the block editor writes to, so the two stay in sync.
Added (Premium): support for additional public custom post types. A new “Custom post types (Premium)” row in the Enable-sitewide section lists every public custom post type registered on your site (WooCommerce products appear automatically when WooCommerce is active). Tick a type to bring it into scope: the block editor sidebar, the bulk actions, the daily refresh sweep, and the Regenerate All button all extend to it immediately.
2.1.3
Fixed: on Yoast SEO sites where the page already had its own OG image (a featured image or a Yoast-set Open Graph image), the 2.1.2 fix added a second og:image tag instead of replacing the existing one. Pages ended up with two og:image meta tags pointing at the same screenshot URL but reporting different width/height values, which is invalid Open Graph markup and confuses social-preview scrapers. The plugin now adds the screenshot to Yoast’s image collection only when Yoast has no image of its own, and otherwise rewrites the existing one. Exactly one og:image tag is emitted per page in either case.
Fixed: og:image:width / og:image:height / og:image:type tags now consistently report 1200, 630, and image/webp under Yoast (matching the actual screenshot dimensions and format). Previously, when Yoast had its own image with different dimensions, those dimensions were left in place after the URL was rewritten to ours.
2.1.2
Fixed (critical): the og:image tag was missing entirely on sites using Yoast SEO when no other og:image was set for the page. Yoast’s rewrite-only filter only modifies an existing og:image and does nothing when no image is present, so on pages with no featured image and no Yoast default the og:image tag did not ship at all. Result: Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, WhatsApp and Discord previews showed no image even though the screenshot existed. The plugin now adds the screenshot to Yoast’s internal image collection directly so the tag is guaranteed to ship. Rank Math and All in One SEO were not affected by this specific issue.
Added: a new “Scheduled refresh” checkbox on the Settings page. When off, cached screenshots are kept indefinitely until you explicitly regenerate them (per post or via Regenerate All Screenshots). Post-update auto-regen still works when its own setting is enabled. Defaults to on, so existing installs keep their current schedule-driven behaviour.
Changed: the setup banner shown before plugin activation now branches between two states. After you click “Allow & Continue” but before clicking the confirmation link in the email, the banner now reads “Check your email to finish setup” with a Refresh button – so you are not asked to “Activate now” again when you are already waiting on your own inbox.
Changed: the setup banner icon is now a WordPress dashicon to match the visual style used across other PlugUpp plugins.
2.1.1
Compliance: addressed four Plugin Check ERROR-severity findings on the 2.1.0 build. Two missing translators: comments on the live screenshot-usage headline strings, and two output-escape annotations on integer values in the Refresh interval helper text. The values were already integer-cast; this re-casts at the printf call site so the static analyser sees the safety explicitly. No customer-visible change.
2.1.0
First public release on the WordPress.org plugin directory.
Real screenshot-based og:image. The plugin captures a real browser screenshot of each page at the standard 1200×630 Open Graph size and uses it as the og:image. No templates, no featured-image fallbacks – the actual page is what social platforms see when your link is shared.
No third-party API key. The plugin connects to the PlugUpp screenshot service automatically using your licence. No separate account to manage and no per-request signup.
Per-post controls in the Gutenberg sidebar – per-page enable/disable, live status, thumbnail preview of the current capture, and a “Regenerate Now” button. Premium adds per-page overrides for viewport width, capture delay, hide selectors, scroll-into-view, click-before-capture, dark mode, country routing, and Media Library integration.
Page-builder content-save detection. Edits made in Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, BeTheme (Muffin Builder), Oxygen, Themify Builder, or Breakdance trigger the same auto-regeneration as a Block Editor save. Two filters (doig_supported_builders and doig_render_affecting_meta_keys) let site owners add their own.
Works alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and All in One SEO via each plugin’s own image filter hooks. Other meta tags (titles, descriptions, structured data, canonicals, sitemaps) stay under your SEO plugin’s control. The plugin runs without an SEO plugin too, emitting its own og:image and twitter:image block.
Configurable fallback image – your SEO plugin’s default, a custom image from your Media Library, or none – shown while a screenshot is being generated or for posts that have not yet been captured.
Configurable refresh schedule (default 30 days) with a background daily sweep, optional auto-regeneration on post update, and a manual “Regenerate All Screenshots” action on the Settings page (with a backup-recommendation warning before bulk operations).
HTTPS pre-flight check with an actionable message when the WordPress Site Address is misconfigured as http://. Prevents silent capture failures that would otherwise consume quota for no result.
Asynchronous capture pipeline. Jobs are delivered via a signed callback with a polling fallback for hosts that block inbound callbacks. On PHP-FPM hosts the callback handler uses fastcgi_finish_request() to return in single-digit milliseconds even under bulk-regeneration load.
Live screenshot-usage section on the Settings page showing your current startup count, monthly count, quota-reset date, and subscription-renewal date. Figures come from the screenshot server live so they always match reality.
Cache management on the Settings page – cached file count, total disk usage, “Clear Entire Cache”, and “Regenerate All Screenshots” with the bulk-operations safety warning.
Quota awareness. Posts that would exceed the monthly cap are marked with a quota_exceeded status and re-queued automatically when the quota resets at the start of your next billing period. Existing screenshots continue to be served in the meantime.
Documentation links throughout the plugin UI. The Plugins admin row, the Settings tab, and the Logs tab all link out to context-relevant pages on the public documentation site at https://docs.plugupp.com/dynamic-og-image-generator/.
