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Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

by fifu.app

Version: 5.2.8

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Description

WordPress plugin for remote 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 a remote image as featured image of your post, page or custom post type.

  • Remote featured image
  • Optimized images
  • Make all images square
  • 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

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 product images from ASIN
  • [PRO] Auto set featured media 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

  • Remote product image
  • Lightbox and zoom
  • [PRO] Gallery for remote images
  • [PRO] Gallery for remote 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

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. <p>Featured image</p>

    Featured image

  2. <p>Image search</p>

    Image search

  3. <p>Featured video</p>

    Featured video

  4. <p>Image gallery for WooCommerce products</p>

    Image gallery for WooCommerce products

  5. <p>Image gallery for WooCommerce product variations</p>

    Image gallery for WooCommerce product variations

  6. <p>Quick edit</p>

    Quick edit

  7. <p>Widgets for Elementor</p>

    Widgets for Elementor

  8. <p>Settings → Help</p>

    Settings → Help

  9. <p>Settings → Image</p>

    Settings → Image

  10. <p>Settings → Video</p>

    Settings → Video

  11. <p>Settings → Slider</p>

    Settings → Slider

  12. <p>Settings → Audio</p>

    Settings → Audio

  13. <p>Settings → Automatic</p>

    Settings → Automatic

  14. <p>Settings → WooCommerce</p>

    Settings → WooCommerce

  15. <p>Settings → WP All Import</p>

    Settings → WP All Import

  16. <p>Settings → Metadata</p>

    Settings → Metadata

  17. <p>Settings → Developers</p>

    Settings → Developers

Why isn’t preview button working?

  • Your image URL is invalid. Take a look at Settings Getting started.

Does FIFU save the images in the media library?

  • No. Only the PRO version is capable of doing this, but it is optional. The plugin was designed to work with external images.

Why the featured image is being displayed twice?

  • You enabled “Modify Post Content add featured media” option unnecessarily.

Why the featured image is not being displayed?

  • Please check if “Hide Featured Media” option is unduly enabled.

Why are there no changes after updating the settings?

  • Try to clear your cache.

Is any action necessary before removing FIFU?

  • Access settings and clear the metadata.

What’s the metadata created by FIFU?

  • Database registers that help WordPress components to work with remote images. This plugin can generate the metadata of ~50,000 image URLs per minute.

What are the disadvantages of remote images?

  • No image optimization or thumbnails by default. You can fix that with ‘Optimized Images’ feature.

What are the advantages of remote images?

  • You save money on storage, processing and copyright. And you can have extremely fast import processes.

Is it legal to embed images without permission?

  • Yes, it is. Click here to know more.

Do remote images affect SEO?

  • No, remote images don’t affect SEO. Click here to know more.

Fantastic plugin! Great support! Best plugin I've ever installed!

By l3lindsid3 on June 25, 2025

By far, FIFU is the best plugin I have ever downloaded and installed for my site. It saves me so much time, I've been able to move foward so quickly with a large number of new product additions that used to take forever to add to my store. I will never go back to the 'old way' after using FIFU.

what wrong with you guy ?

By sonnycool on May 21, 2025

almost every twoday i received new update notification, i run my site for less than a month, i now

Excellent plugin and support

By superbr on November 17, 2024

Fast support and awesome plugin

Plugin is perfect, support is world-class

By nixk on August 4, 2024

The plugin is great (paid version). All the customizability needed, and very simple and easy to use. There's always going to be conflicts with special themes or other plugins, and these were quickly hashed out and easily fixed with the plugin's great support, thanks to Marcel.

All my boring image thumbnails are now autotplay MP4 videos, and this is a game changer for my business as a VFX Studio. If I could give this plugin a better rating I would.

Great plugin and even better service

By theclothessupplier on June 19, 2024

really recommend.

the bad plugin looks like this

By hakhakop on June 18, 2024

no function works as expected, it has all the bad behaviour of worst wordpress plugins, from user experience to user interface is worst in the world, from point of view of a developer its a disaster

Great functionality, great support

By Timothy Snyder (thetimsnyder) on June 12, 2024

I switched to the premium version of this plugin for the YouTube functionality, and it does exactly what I need it to. The company has also had amazing support with almost immediate response times when I have a need.

Highly recommend.

Great plugin and support

By tarmrenser on May 24, 2024

I had a small issue that turned out to be a problem with another plugin.
Marcel provided outstanding support and pointed me in the right direction.

Works well. Great support

By brussell99 on May 11, 2024

Using the Premium version. No problem with getting it to work, easy to use. A minor issue with the FIFU alt tags not working correctly, but the response from Marcel was first rate and the issue was quickly resolved.

Exactly What I Needed!

By justbishop on February 27, 2024

Using the premium version on my book logging/review site to grab book cover images from amazon page URLs I was already inputting to create an affiliate purchase link. It was a bit bumpy at first, but the plugin author was extremely attentive and helped me over the course of several days to get things working exactly as I'd hoped! highly recommend if you need an easy and quick way to grab an image from an external URL.

5.2.8

  • Fixes: vulnerabilities reported by the Wordfence Security team.

5.2.7

  • New: Notice to rate the plugin; Enhancement: Auto set featured media from post content (now supports local relative URLs); Fix: Incomplete product data generated for Rich Results.

5.2.6

  • Enhancement: improved integration with Rich Results from Google; Enhancement: alternative text can now be displayed as captions at the bottom of the image; Fix: images defined by other plugins were being displayed on social media instead of the remote featured image; Fix: Elementor widget not working with newer Elementor versions.

5.2.5

  • Enhancement: Improved translations and support for 40 new languages; Enhancement: Alternative Text field now opens in the lightbox for easier editing; Enhancement: Redirects to the plugin settings after activation; Fix: Quick Edit not working for variable products with multiple attributes; Fix: Google Drive images not displaying in the admin area.

5.2.4

  • New: Optimized Images > Sizes > Make all images square; Enhancement: Collection of anonymous stats is not necessary for now and has been disabled; Fix: Resolved conflict with Rank Math SEO plugin (fatal error).

5.2.3

  • Fix: the plugin was being translated into the site language instead of the user language; Fix: input field for featured image.

5.2.2

  • New: WordPress block for remote featured images; Enhancement: Alternative Text field added to the Elementor widget; Enhancement: Registers are no longer listed in the Custom Fields box; Enhancements and fixes: Input fields for posts, products, and categories; Fix: Images were being cropped unnecessarily in WooCommerce.

5.2.1

  • Fix: possible fatal error when activating or upgrading the plugin; Fix: potential undefined index/property notices.

5.2.0

  • Enhancement: Image Not Found message displayed in the post editor when the image URL is invalid; Fix: vulnerability reported by Wordfence (improved validation of values added in FIFU fields via post editor for better security); Fix: potential undefined index notices.

5.1.9

  • Notice: the plugin collects the theme name anonymously (the goal is to identify the most common themes and ensure FIFU works correctly with all of them).

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  • Version:Version: 5.2.8
  • Active installs:Active installs: 80K
  • Last updated:Last updated: 2 weeks ago
  • Requires:Requires: 5.6
  • Tested:Tested: 6.8.2
Average rating:4.6 out of 5 stars.
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