Featured Image From URL

Free feature
Premium feature
Depends on WooCommerce Version

Custom Post Types

Free feature

Featured Image from URL is preconfigured to work with only one Custom Post Type (WooCommerce Product). But you also can use this plugin with other ones. For that, you just need to know the correct Custom Post Type names and fill the fields below. Please, let me know if you need more than 5 inputs here.

Social Tags

Free feature

Featured Image from URL provides social tags to share the external images on the social networks. Here you can enable/disable this feature.

Featured Image in Content

Free feature

It will sound crazy, but some themes don't show the Featured Image on the posts or pages. If it is your case and you would like to show the Featured Image there, just enable the toggle. The Featured Image will appear at the beginning of the content, before the text.

"This Plugin Doesn't Work, Man!"

Free feature

If the external featured images of your posts or pages aren't being shown, congratulations: you're using a nonstandard theme! But there is a last hope. Enabling the toggle below, your external featured images will be associated to a symbolic file in your Media Library. It's a desperate attempt to cheat your theme that will think that there is an internal image there. Then when the theme tries to show the image, that doesn't exist, a function will replace the symbolic file by your URL on execution time. It should allow you to use the main feature of this plugin, but secondary ones, such as "External Featured Image Slider" may not work.

WooCommerce Full Integration

Free feature (WooCommerce 2.4/5.X)
Premium feature (WooCommerce 2.6.X)

Would you like to integrate WooCommerce to Featured Image From URL? For that, a script will be executed to overwrite some lines of code from WooCommerce plugin. It's safe and reversible but it will only work if your site is hosted on a Linux server.

So let me check...

Free: supports WooCommerce 2.4.X and 2.5.X.

Premium: supports WooCommerce 2.6.X and later.

flickr Integration (External Thumbnails): Your Website Faster Than Ever

Premium feature

Do you know Flickr?

  1. It's free;
  2. Offers 1000 GB of space;
  3. It's dedicated to store and provide images, probably faster than the most of servers;
  4. Creates automatic copies of your images in many different sizes.

How does Featured Image From URL take advantage of Flickr?

Smaller the images, faster your site.

So the plugin will load the images from Flickr in the exactly size your site needs. And the result is...

The images will be shown with the best quality and the shortest time possible.

Getting Flickr URL

You just need to get one URL (Square 75). Use that to fill the External Featured Image field of your post, page or product. The plugin will handle this URL to provide the image in different sizes.

Choose the maximum image size for each screen

Cart: 
Category: 
Home: 
Lightbox: 
Page: 
Post: 
Product: 
Shop: 

Live preview (site loaded 93% faster due external thumbnails feature)

External Featured Videos

Premium feature

Allows you to use an external video from YouTube instead of a featured image.

Live preview

Slider

Premium feature

You can use a slider of external images as featured image.

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CSS Style

Premium feature

Here you can define a CSS style to be applied to all external featured images. Usage example:

width: 100%; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 5px;

Hover Effects

Premium feature

Choose one among 18 hover effects to be applied to all external featured images of your posts on your main page.

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Help

Featured Image From URL plugin allows you to use an external image (from anywhere) as Featured Image of your Post, Page or Custom Post Type, such as WooCommerce Product. For WooCommerce users, it's also possible to use external images in the Product Category and Product Gallery. All included content still has social tags to facilitate sharing on social networks. And it's compatible with WP All Import, a3 Lazy Load and Sirv plugins. For more information, refer to FAQ and screenshots.

Give This Plugin a 5-Star Rating

Do you really love Featured Image From URL? So give this plugin a 5-star rating.

Report a Bug or Suggest an Improvement

Bug reports and suggestions for improvement are always welcome. Just send an email to marceljmachado@gmail.com and your request can be available in the next release.

About Premium Version

1) "Is my theme compatible with Featured Image From URL Premium?"

Compatibility between Featured Image From URL Premium and the 50 most popular themes on WordPress Theme Directory:

01) Twenty Seventeen: yes;
02) Twenty Sixteen: yes;
03) Twenty Fifteen: yes;
04) Twenty Fourteen: yes;
05) Total: yes;
06) Twenty Twelve: yes;
07) Giga Store: no;
08) modernize: yes;
09) Sydney: no;
10) Twenty Eleven: yes;
11) Twenty Thirteen: yes;
12) Eleganto: no;
13) E-Shop: yes;
14) Twenty Ten: yes;
15) Shop Isle: no;
16) ColorMag: yes;
17) Illdy: yes;
18) OnePress: yes;
19) Spacious: yes;
20) Primer: yes;
21) Storefront: yes;
22) Vertex: no;
23) Astrid: yes;
24) Fotografo: no;
25) Poseidon: no;
26) Silver Platinum: yes;
27) Peaceful: yes;
28) Customizr: yes;
29) Activello: yes;
30) Vantage: yes;
31) Maxwell: yes;
32) Clean Commerce: yes;
33) Nikkon: yes;
34) Nisarg: yes;
35) Vega: yes;
36) Resortica Lite: yes;
37) Basic: yes;
38) Panoramic: no;
39) Sparkling: yes;
40) Hueman: yes;
41) Businessx: yes;
42) xMag: yes;
43) Athena: no;
44) Shopstar: yes;
45) ajaira: yes;
46) evolve: no;
47) Alpha Store: yes;
48) Virtue: no;
49) Vogue: yes;
50) Responsive: yes.

Other popular themes:
01) Avada: no;
02) Porto: no;
03) Flatsome: no;
04) Bimber: no.

And I will continue updating those lists...

2) "And if my theme isn't listed above?"

If your theme isn't listed above, I strongly recommend you to send the zip file to marceljmachado@gmail.com. Then I can test and inform you if all plugin features will work with your theme. It's really important once there is no refund for problems related to theme compatibility and, as you can see, some themes aren't flexible enough to work with external images.

3) "How to get support?"

You can inform any problem related to the Premium version (except theme issues) in the email above. It will be solved as soon as possible and without any cost.

4) "Which plugins are compatible with Premium version?"

WooCommerce, WP All Import, a3 Lazy Load and others. If you intend to use the Premium version with a specific plugin, please ask me if they are compatible.

5) "Can I get my money back later?"

With the exception of rare situations, no way. So don't go to the Premium version if you are not sure if your theme is compatible.

6) "How to get the Premium version?"

(US$ 25 or more, please) and receive the Premium version by email within 12 hours.

About The Author

Hi! I'm Marcel Jacques Machado. Graduated in Computer Science, I work as a Software Engineer for 10 years. I already worked with C, Python, Shell Script and other programming languages and technologies. Nowadays, I develop web applications in Brazil using Java. About PHP, this plugin, Featured Image From URL, is my first pratical experience. I also have a blog in WordPress and I expect to post some useful content very soon.