## Description
**GenPost Thumbnails – Smart Featured Images** is a lightweight, intelligent plugin that generates eye-catching, contextual featured images (thumbnails) for your WordPress posts using advanced AI models via Pollinations.ai.
Whether you publish breaking news, tech blogs, personal journals, or WooCommerce products, GenPost Thumbnails analyzes your post titles, tags, and categories to construct visually stunning, contextual prompts and generate relevant featured images in seconds.
### Key Features:
- **Smart Prompt Formulation**: Intelligently creates descriptive English visual prompts from your post title, tags, and categories.
- **On-Demand Generation via Meta Box**: Test and preview images directly in the post editor (compatible with both Block Editor / Gutenberg and the Classic Editor) before applying them.
- **Automated Publishing Workflow**: Optionally generate and attach a featured image automatically whenever a post is published without a thumbnail.
- **Safe Sideloading**: Downloads images safely into your native WordPress Media Library, sets proper SEO alt tags, and establishes standard post thumbnails.
- **Customizable Styles & Dimensions**: Choose between presets like Photorealistic, Digital Art, Cinematic, Minimalist, 3D Render, and Anime. Configure custom dimensions (default 1200×630, perfect for Open Graph social shares).
- **Quality Enhancers & Negative Prompts**: Add custom prompt boosters to ensure crisp, clean, and safe visual results every time.
- **WordPress.org Compliant**: Built strictly following WordPress coding standards, sanitization, nonces, capabilities, and explicit 3rd-party opt-in consent.
### External Service
This plugin utilizes **Pollinations.ai** as a 3rd-party AI image generation service to synthesize images based on post keywords and prompts.
- **Service Name**: Pollinations.ai
- **Service Website**: https://pollinations.ai
- **Terms of Service**: https://pollinations.ai/terms
- **Privacy Policy**: https://pollinations.ai/privacy
- **What Data is Sent**: When generating an image, only the visual prompt text (e.g. keywords describing the subject) and requested image dimensions (width, height, model parameters) are transmitted via a secure HTTPS request to the Pollinations.ai image API (`https://image.pollinations.ai/`).
- **Privacy & User Data**: No personally identifiable information (PII), user credentials, emails, visitor IP addresses, or private site data are sent to or stored by the external service.
- **Opt-In Requirement**: In accordance with WordPress.org Guideline 6, this service is strictly **opt-in**. The plugin will not send any requests to Pollinations.ai until the site administrator explicitly opts in via the plugin settings page or the administrative prompt notice.
