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Confirms every blog post carries its own unique featured image so archives, social shares, and search results don't show a wall of identical thumbnails.
Category: Website QA Audit
Use this when running Layer 2 (Content Architecture Checks) of the Website QA Audit – duplicate featured images make the blog look templated and machine-generated.
Inputs
- WordPress admin access (Posts list with featured-image visibility)
- The live blog archive page for visual confirmation
- The audit report/spreadsheet for logging results
Steps
- Open the live blog archive and scan the grid – duplicate thumbnails jump out immediately at this view.
- In WordPress → Posts, review every post's featured image (use a list view or theme admin column showing thumbnails) and record the image file used per post.
- Flag every post with no featured image set – the theme will fall back to a default, creating accidental duplicates.
- Flag every image file attached as the featured image on more than one post.
- Confirm featured images are real photos relevant to each post's topic, consistent with the no-stock rule.
- Log the post-to-image table with duplicates and gaps highlighted in the audit report.
Definition of done (QA checklist)
- Every published post has a featured image, and no image file is reused across two or more posts
- All featured images are real (non-stock) and topically relevant to their post
- Post-to-image table logged in the audit report, linked back to /website-qa-audit
Example(s)
- Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run.
File in the zip: skills/website-qa-audit/verify-featured-images-unique-per-blog-post.md. Download the Task Library zip.
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