Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

Description

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 product images from ASIN
• [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

Screenshots

Installation

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;

FAQ

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 external images. This plugin can generate the metadata of ~50,000 image URLs per minute.

What are the disadvantages of external images?

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

What are the advantages of external 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 external images affect SEO?

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

Reviews

Excellent plugin and support

superbr November 17, 2024

Fast support and awesome plugin

Plugin is perfect, support is world-class

nixk 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

theclothessupplier June 19, 2024

really recommend.

the bad plugin looks like this

hakhakop June 18, 2024 3 replies

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

Timothy Snyder 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

tarmrenser 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.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

4.9.4

• Enhancement: Page Redirection (integration with WP All Import, REST API and others).

4.9.3

• Enhancement: Auto set featured image from custom field (supports prefix and suffix now); Enhancement: Auto set category images (get random images now); Fix: Optimized Images (conflict with Google bot).

4.9.2

• Enhancement: FIFU Cloud (automatic delete); fix: possibility of a fatal error on WooCommerce hook.

others

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