spyboy70

Featured images need to be in the WordPress database (as far as I’ve been able to test), there’s no way to reference another URL for those.

I’m just interested in getting the featured image linked up. I can upload them through the WP media importer (now that v3.3 has the drag and drop capability) and then modify my excel file to use the full path (/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/filename1.jpg)

I’d have to adjust that full path each month for uploads but that’s fairly easy in excel (built a table with variables that I change and the other table will produce the full path)

When will the featured image support be publicly available (or can you send me a version of it to use now?)

I found where the featured image is referenced, it’s a different table in the database.

CSV Importer plugin is only working with the wp_posts table.

It needs to also work with the wp_postmeta table.

there’s a thumbnail_id in there an the value is the ID # of the image that’s uploaded into the media section of WordPress.

That’s about as much as I can figure out by editing the SQL database manually. I was able to change the ID# to a different one and my post now has a different featured image.

But, I don’t know how to automated this, the CSV Importer plugin would have to be rewritter to allow for featured image support.