Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

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
• [PRO] Auto-share on social media

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

• FIFU PRO
• 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

5.3.1

• New feature: Auto-share on social media; Fix: Featured image might not be displaying on X.

5.3.0

• Enhancement: Quick Edit column (PRO feature) not displayed initially for new users to avoid confusion; Enhancement: bbPress and BuddyBoss Platform (can now add images to activities).

5.2.9

• New: multisite network menu; Enhancement: integration with the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin (when a post or product is duplicated, FIFU now duplicates its image data); Fix: Optimized Images (URLs not being included in structured data); Fix: possible syntax error on sites with very old PHP versions.

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.

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