Featured Image from URL

FIFU allows to use an external image as Featured Image of your Post, Page or Custom Post Type, such as WooCommerce Product, without saving to the image library. You only need the image address (URL). Alternatively, you can use random images from Unsplash and Giphy or search them by keywords.

Free features:

• Original Size
• Default External Featured Image
• Featured Image in Content (post, page)
• Hide Featured Image (post, page, Custom Post Type)
• CSS Style
• Add Class
• Maximum Sizes (archive, cart, category, home, page, post, product, shop)
• Save Image Dimensions
  • save and use image dimensions
  • save the image dimensions of all external featured images now
  • clean the image dimensions of all external featured images now
  • follow redirects

Premium features:

• Same Height
  • selectors
  • size ratio
  • object fit
    • cover (center, top or bottom)
    • contain
    • fill
  • delay
• Unsplash Image Size (for Keyword Search and Random Image)
• Replace Broken Image
• Hover Effects (selectors)
• Validate Images

This feature makes FIFU read the HTML of your internal post/page/product content and use the 1st (or nth) image/video URL found as “featured image”. It will happen when you click on Publish/Update button.

Free features:

• Configuration
  • Use the 1st (or nth) image as featured image
  • Hide the 1st (or nth) image from content
  • Remove query strings
  • Overwrite the existing featured image

Premium features:

• Configuration
  • Use the 1st (or nth) video as “featured image”
  • Hide the 1st (or nth) video from content
  • Overwrite the existing featured video

• Apply to all
  • ignore posts that already have an external featured image/video
  • update all your posts/pages/products now
  • define a cron event

FIFU allows to use external images in Product Image (regular or variable products), Product Gallery and Product Category.

Free features:

• Disable Lightbox/Zoom
• Category Image on Product Grid
• Integrated with WooCommerce Import (custom field for image)

Premium features:

• Image Gallery
• Auto Set Product Category Images
• Variable Product
  • variation image and gallery
• Integrated with WooCommerce Import (custom fields for gallery, video and slider)

FIFU adds its own add-on to WP All Import plugin. Many WooCommerce users have used that to build shops with 100,000+ products.

Free fields:

• Featured Image URL
• Featured Image ALT/Title

Premium fields:

• Featured Video URL
• Featured Image URL + WooCommerce Product Gallery URLs
• Featured Image Alt/Title + WooCommerce Product Gallery Alt/Titles
• Featured Video URL + WooCommerce Product Gallery URLs
• Featured Slider URLs

FIFU is integrate with WP REST API and WooCommerce REST API:

Premium fields:

• Featured Image URL
• Featured Image ALT/Title
• Featured Video URL
• Featured Image URL + WooCommerce Product Gallery URLs
• Featured Image Alt/Title + WooCommerce Product Gallery Alt/Titles
• Featured Video URL + WooCommerce Product Gallery URLs
• Featured Slider URLs

FIFU has some features to load the images faster.

Free feature:

• Lazy Load

Premium feature:

• Flickr External Thumbnails

FIFU external images/videos can be shared on social networks.

Free features:

• Social Tags
  • add social tags
  • only image tags

Premium features:

• Media RSS Tags
  • width

FIFU supports videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Imgur, 9GAG, Cloudinary, Tumblr and Publitio (videos hosted elsewhere are not supported).

Premium features:

• Video
• Video Image Thumbnail
  • on home/shop
  • on page
  • on post
  • on custom post type
• Play Button
  • color
  • mode
    • lightbox
    • inline
  • z-index
  • hide from grid
• Black Background (Vimeo)
• Minimum Width
• Video Autoplay on mouseover (YouTube, Vimeo)
• Video Autoplay (YouTube, Vimeo)
• Video Loop (YouTube, Vimeo)
• Related Videos (YouTube)
• Product Gallery Icon

FIFU allows to use a slider of external images as “featured image”.

Premium features:

• Slider
• Fade Effect
• Pause Autoplay on Hover
• Show Prev/Next Buttons
• Start to Play Automatically
• Show Gallery on Click
• Define a Time Between Transitions
• Define Transition Duration

FIFU allows to link some text to the images for SEO purposes.

Free features:

• Auto Set Image Alt/Title
  • copy the post title to FIFU alt/title field
  • always use the post title as image alt/title

FIFU allows to use any content provided by a [shortcode] as “featured image”.

Premium features:

• Shortcode
  • minimum width required
  • maximum height

FIFU is compatible with most popular plugins and themes. For that, some metadata needs to be created on database.

Free features:

• Image Metadata
• Clean Metadata
• Delete All URLs

FIFU general settings.

Free features:

• Featured Image Column
• Database
• Media Library
• jQuery

Premium features:

• Meta Boxes: External Galleries and Slider
• Schedule Metadata Generation
• Internal URL Parameters

FIFU has its own Google Chrome Extension.