Description
WordPress plugin for external featured images, videos, audios and more
Since 2015 FIFU has helped thousands of websites worldwide to save money on storage, processing and copyright.
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
- Unsplash image search
- Default featured image
- Hide featured media
- Featured image in content
- Auto set image title
- Save image dimensions
- Featured image column
- [PRO] Disable right-click
- [PRO] Save in the media library
- [PRO] Same height
- [PRO] Replace not found image
- [PRO] Custom popup
- [PRO] Page redirection
AUTOMATIC FEATURED MEDIA
- Auto set featured media from post content
- [PRO] Auto set featured image using post title and search engine
- [PRO] Auto set featured image using ISBN and books API
- [PRO] Auto set screenshot as featured image
- [PRO] Auto set featured media using web page address
- [PRO] Auto set featured image from Unsplash using tags
PERFORMANCE
- CDN + optimized thumbnails
- Lazy load
SOCIAL
- Social tags
- [PRO] Media RSS tags
- [PRO] bbPress features
AUTOMATION
- WP-CLI integration
- [PRO] WP All Import add-on
- [PRO] WooCommerce import
- [PRO] WP REST API
- [PRO] WooCommerce REST API
- [PRO] Schedule metadata generation
WOOCOMMERCE
- External product image
- Lightbox and zoom
- [PRO] External image gallery
- [PRO] External video gallery
- [PRO] Auto set category images
- [PRO] Variable product
- [PRO] Variation image
- [PRO] Variation image gallery
- [PRO] Save images in the media library
- [PRO] FIFU product gallery
- [PRO] Quick Buy
- [PRO] Add image to order email
FEATURED VIDEO
Supports videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, Imgur, 9GAG, Cloudinary, Tumblr, Publitio, JW Player, VideoPress, Sprout, Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion and Cloudflare Stream. 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] Mouseover autoplay
- [PRO] Autoplay
- [PRO] Loop
- [PRO] Mute
- [PRO] Privacy enhanced mode
- [PRO] Background video
ELEMENTOR WIDGETS
- Featured image
- [PRO] Featured video
WORDPRESS WIDGETS
- [PRO] Featured media
- [PRO] Featured grid
- [PRO] Product gallery
GRAVITY FORMS FIELDS
- Featured image
- [PRO] Featured video
- [PRO] Featured slider
DOKAN FIELDS
- Featured image
- [PRO] Product gallery
OTHERS
- [PRO] Quick edit
- [PRO] Featured audio
- [PRO] Featured slider
- [PRO] FIFU shortcodes
INTEGRATION FUNCTION FOR DEVELOPERS
- fifu_dev_set_image($post_id, $image_url)
- [PRO] fifu_dev_set_image_list($post_id, $image_url_list)
- [PRO] fifu_dev_set_video($post_id, $video_url)
- [PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_image($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)
- Pay-as-you-go (per stored image)
- Smart crop (detects people and objects before cropping)
- Hotlink protection (sites can’t embed your images)
LINKS
FIFU, the best WordPress plugin for…
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Screenshots
Featured image
Unsplash image search
Featured video
Image gallery for WooCommerce products
Image gallery for WooCommerce product variations
Quick edit
Elementor widgets
Settings: featured image
Settings: featured video
Settings: featured slider
Settings: featured audio
Settings: shortcode
Settings: automatic
Settings: social
Settings: performance
Settings: WooCommerce
Settings: WP All Import
Settings: REST API
Settings: Admin
Settings: Metadata
integration functions for developers
FIFU Cloud
Installation
INSTALL FIFU FROM WITHIN WORDPRESS
- Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’;
- Search for ‘Featured Image from URL’;
- Activate FIFU from your Plugins page;
INSTALL FIFU MANUALLY
- Upload the ‘featured-image-from-url’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory;
- Activate the FIFU plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress;
FAQ
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- Your image URL is invalid. Take a look at FIFU Settings > Getting started.
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Does FIFU save the images in the media library?
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- No. Only the PRO version is capable of doing this, but it is optional. The plugin was designed to work with external images.
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Why the featured image is being displayed twice?
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- You enabled “Featured Image in Content” option unnecessarily.
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Why the featured image is not being displayed?
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- Please check if “Hide Featured Media” option is unduly enabled.
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Why are there no changes after changing the settings?
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- Try to clean your cache.
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Is any action necessary before removing FIFU?
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- Access settings and clean the metadata.
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What’s the metadata created by FIFU?
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- Database registers that help WordPress components to work with the external images. FIFU can generate the metadata of ~50,000 image URLs per minute.
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What are the disadvantages of the external images?
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- No image optimization or thumbnails by default. You can fix that with CDN + Optimized Thumbnails feature (performance settings).
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What are the advantages of the external images?
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- You save money on storage, processing and copyright. And you can have extremely fast import processes.
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Is it legal to embed images without permission?
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- Yes, it is. Click here to know more.
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Do external images affect SEO?
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- No, they don’t. Click here to know more.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Featured Image from URL (FIFU)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
4.2.8
- New feature: Custom Popup; enhancement: Featured Video > Video Thumbnail (Bunny Stream videos have animated preview now); enhancement: FIFU Cloud (expiration time session increased); fix: FIFU Cloud > Automatic upload (trying to upload invalid images indefinitely); fix: security warning in Microsoft Edge (due JSON examples saved in txt files).
4.2.7
- New feature: Featured video > Watch Later; enhancement: Featured Video (supports Bunny Stream now).
4.2.6
- Enhancement: Quick Edit (loads much faster now); enhancement: Save in the Media Library (domain filter); enhancement: Auto set featured media using web page address (automatic image gallery for Amazon products can be disabled now); fix: Auto set featured media from post content (fatal error when used with the plugins WordPress Automatic and Web Stories).