Featured Image from URL Premium v7.1.4

Use external image / video / slider as featured image of your post / page or custom post type (WooCommerce product). Includes auto setup, product gallery, social tagging and more.

Features

• Ideal for external posts, the plugin can use the first image / video as the featured image;
• When accessing the table of publications / pages / products / categories in the admin menu, the selected images are displayed in a new column;
• If your theme does not show featured images on posts / pages / products, it is possible to automatically include them at the beginning of the content but if your theme shows featured images on posts / pages / products, there is an option to remove featured images;
• with lazy loading function, images / videos will not load until the user scrolls through them, which will speed up loading of the home page / store;
• All included content still has social tags to facilitate sharing on social media;
• Compatible with WP All Import plugin and WooCommerce imports;
• Some non-standard image URLs like Instagram and Google Drive will work as well.
• You can define the default external displayed image that will be displayed when there is no selected image;
• You can turn off product lightbox and zoom;
• You can apply your own CSS style or 18 image hover effects;
• Supports WP REST API (extended feature)
• Allows you to schedule a cron event to set all first images as favorites. So it can work hourly, daily, etc. (Premium feature);
• All features built for external images are available for external videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Cloudinary and Tumblr. For YouTube videos, you
• Can set the player options. And you can define the video size for each screen type (premium feature);
• You can use the image slider like “Featured Image” (premium feature);
• You can use an external thumbnail or external video (from YouTube, Vimeo, Cloudinary, or Tumblr) as a “featured image” (premium feature);
• You can use any content provided by the shortcode as a “featured image” (BETA premium feature);
• Automatic adjustment of product category images, with each image selected from external product images from that category (premium feature);
• You can also use external images in WooCommerce product gallery, product categories and variable products (premium feature);
• You can use external thumbnails from Flickr to make your site 94% faster (premium feature)
• It is able to crop all external images in the store / house to one size (premium feature);
• Auto play / pause video when mouse hover / off (advanced function);
• Replace broken URLs by default (advanced feature);