Featured Image from URL (FIFU) Plugin

WordPress plugin for external featured images, videos, audios and more

FIFU plugin has helped thousands of websites worldwide save money on storage, processing, and copyright since 2015.

If you are tired of wasting time and resources with thumbnail regeneration, image optimization, and never-ending imports, this plugin is for you.

Featured image

Use an external image as featured image of your post, page or custom post type.

• External featured image
• Optimized images
• Image search (Unsplash)
• Default featured image
• Hide featured media
• Modify post content
• Auto set image title
• Column for featured image
• [PRO] Image search (search engine)
• [PRO] Disable right-click
• [PRO] Save in the media library
• [PRO] Replace not found image
• [PRO] Custom popup
• [PRO] bbPress and BuddyBoss Platform integration
• [PRO] Page redirection
• [PRO] Cloak links
• [PRO] Same height

Automatic featured media

• Auto set featured media from post content
• [PRO] Auto set featured image using post title and a search engine
• [PRO] Auto set featured media using web page address
• [PRO] Auto set featured image from custom field
• [PRO] Auto set featured image using ISBN
• [PRO] Auto set screenshot as featured image
• [PRO] Auto set featured image from Unsplash using tags

Automation

• WP-CLI integration
• [PRO] Add-on for WP All Import
• [PRO] WooCommerce import
• [PRO] WP REST API
• [PRO] WooCommerce REST API
• [PRO] Schedule metadata generation

WooCommerce

• External product image
• Lightbox and zoom
• [PRO] Gallery for external images
• [PRO] Gallery for external videos
• [PRO] Category images auto set
• [PRO] Variable product
• [PRO] Variation image
• [PRO] Gallery for variation image
• [PRO] Save in the media library
• [PRO] FIFU product gallery
• [PRO] Quick Buy
• [PRO] Add image to order email

Featured video

Supports URLs from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, 9GAG, Cloudinary, Tumblr, Publitio, JW Player, VideoPress, Sprout, Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion, Cloudflare Stream, Bunny Stream, Amazon, BitChute, Brighteon, Google Drive, Spotify and SoundCloud. External and local video files are supported as well.

• [PRO] Featured video
• [PRO] Watch later
• [PRO] Video thumbnail
• [PRO] Play button
• [PRO] Minimum width
• [PRO] Video controls
• [PRO] Autoplay on mouseover
• [PRO] Autoplay
• [PRO] Playback loop
• [PRO] Mute
• [PRO] Privacy enhanced mode
• [PRO] Background video

Widgets for Elementor

• Featured image
• [PRO] Featured video

Widgets for WordPress

• [PRO] Featured media
• [PRO] Featured grid
• [PRO] Product gallery

Fields for Gravity-Forms

• Featured image
• [PRO] Featured video
• [PRO] Featured slider

Fields for Dokan

• Featured image
• [PRO] Product gallery

Others

• [PRO] Quick edit
• [PRO] Featured audio
• [PRO] Featured slider
• [PRO] Shortcode
• [PRO] Taxonomy image

Functions for developers

• fifu_dev_set_image($post_id, $image_url)
• [PRO] fifu_dev_set_video($post_id, $video_url)
• [PRO] fifu_dev_set_slider($post_id, $url_list, $alt_list)
• [PRO] fifu_dev_set_image_list($post_id, $image_url_list)
• [PRO] fifu_dev_set_video_list($post_id, $video_url_list)
• [PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_image($term_id, $image_url)
• [PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_video($term_id, $video_url)

FIFU Cloud

• Cloud storage (never lose an image again)
• Global CDN (images loaded much faster)
• Optimized thumbnails (processed in the cloud)
• Usage-based billing (per stored image)
• Smart cropping (detects people and objects before cropping)
• Hotlink protection (sites can’t embed your images)

Links

• FIFU PRO (€29.90)
• Dummy site for testing
• Extension for Google Chrome
• Smoke Test

Install FIFU from within WordPress

1. Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’;
2. Search for ‘FIFU’;
3. Activate FIFU from your Plugins page;

Install FIFU manually

1. Upload the ‘featured-image-from-url’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory;
2. Activate the FIFU plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress;

1. 

   Featured image

2. 

   Image search

3. 

   Featured video

4. 

   Image gallery for WooCommerce products

5. 

   Image gallery for WooCommerce product variations

6. 

   Quick edit

7. 

   Widgets for Elementor

8. 

   Settings → Help

9. 

   Settings → Image

10. 

    Settings → Video

11. 

    Settings → Slider

12. 

    Settings → Audio

13. 

    Settings → Automatic

14. 

    Settings → WooCommerce

15. 

    Settings → WP All Import

16. 

    Settings → Metadata

17. 

    Settings → Developers

4.8.6

• Fix: metadata operations were much slower than expected; Fix: WordPress native lazy load was causing performance issues.

4.8.5

• New free feature: Media RSS Tags (added automatically); Enhancement: menu settings reorganized; Enhancement: Hide Featured Media (post type filter added); Enhancement: WooCommerce import (can receive iframe URLs now); Fix: Clear Metadata (getting stuck); Fix: Hide Featured Media (unduly hiding duplicated image in the post content); Deprecated: Lazy Load (replaced with native WordPress lazy load); Deprecated: Auto Set Image Title (automatic when the alternative text is empty); Deprecated: bbPress and BuddyBoss Platform → Display featured image (automatic when an image URL is added); Deprecated: WooCommerce import → Priority (based on the columns order now).

4.8.4

• New feature: Modify Post Content; Enhancement: Auto Set Featured Media from Post Content (easier to use); Fix: Image Metadata and Clear Metadata (incomplete process when group_concat_max_len is too short, counter displaying negative value); Fix: image alt (empty value unduly saved in the database); Fix: security issue reported by Patchstack team; Fix: conflict with Redis Object Cache plugin (causing multiple fails); Deprecated: Featured Image in Content (replaced with Modify Post Content); Deprecated: Variable Product option (fields displayed by default now); Deprecated: Auto Set Image Title → Copy the post title to the alt/title field (can be done dynamically, without database changes); Deprecated: Meta Tags → Only image tags (default now).

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