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External URL Featured Image

Description

This Plugin allows to use an external image as Featured Image, this can be especially useful if you house your images in another location.

This Plugin is compatible with Nelio External Featured Image Metadata, so you can reuse your data in case you want to uninstall Nelio Plugin.

Screenshots

  • Metabox in post screen configuration
  • After preview image, you can type Alt text
  • After Save post you can view your image in front-end

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload and extract the plugin file to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. This plugin doesn’t have configuration screen, you can view a metabox directly when you create or edit your posts or pages.

Reviews

Agost 24, 2023
Does EXACTLY what I was looking for, for free, and without annoying text and banners in your admin area.
Abril 8, 2018
doesnt show the image on top of the post as it would do in the normal way when you load an image without a plugin
Setembre 26, 2017
It is what I was looking for: simplicity. $external_image = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_dcms_eufi_img', true );
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Contributors & Developers

“External URL Featured Image” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0.3

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.5

1.0.2

  • Fix Readme file, test version 4.8.3

1.0.1

  • Fix text domain for translation

1.0

  • Initial release, stable version.