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Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
Version: 5.2.8
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
Installation
Install FIFU from within WordPress
- Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’;
- Search for ‘FIFU’;
- 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;
Screenshots
Featured image
Image search
Featured video
Image gallery for WooCommerce products
Image gallery for WooCommerce product variations
Quick edit
Widgets for Elementor
Settings → Help
Settings → Image
Settings → Video
Settings → Slider
Settings → Audio
Settings → Automatic
Settings → WooCommerce
Settings → WP All Import
Settings → Metadata
Settings → Developers
Faq
- Your image URL is invalid. Take a look at Settings Getting started.
- No. Only the PRO version is capable of doing this, but it is optional. The plugin was designed to work with external images.
- You enabled “Modify Post Content add featured media” option unnecessarily.
- Please check if “Hide Featured Media” option is unduly enabled.
- Try to clear your cache.
- Access settings and clear the metadata.
- Database registers that help WordPress components to work with remote images. This plugin can generate the metadata of ~50,000 image URLs per minute.
- No image optimization or thumbnails by default. You can fix that with ‘Optimized Images’ feature.
- You save money on storage, processing and copyright. And you can have extremely fast import processes.
- Yes, it is. Click here to know more.
- No, remote images don’t affect SEO. Click here to know more.
Reviews
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.
Changelog
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).