Originally Posted by druid66

with Colmike plugin it's fast and non brain solution: you paste gallery url under post in the new field provided by plugin, you simply add featured image as usually, wrote title as usually for post and press "post" (or schedule) all i wanted and save me time cracking wp code for half a day (usualy takes me so long..).

using external plugin is never perfect solution, better is to modify code for your need but again: i have no time for this now.