Active installations2K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.9 / 5 from 9 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Featured Image with URL version 1.0.7 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Featured Image with URL:
Featured Image with URL allows to use an external URL Images as Featured Image for your post, page & custom post types like WooCommerce Product. Includes support for Product Gallery (WooCommerce). So, using this plugin you can easily set featured image from url.
Features:
Set Featured image by URL for all post types including custom post types.
WooCommerce Product Gallery by URLs.
Image from URL for WooCommerce Product variation.
Display Resized Images as per image sizes like “thumbnail”, “medium” or any custom-size
Lightweight & Easy to use
Credits:
This plugin based on the initial fork of Featured Image by URL plugin. Thanks to the plugin author for the awesome work.
Contributing
You can contribute to development of the plugin on Github.
If you have found a bug/issue or have a feature request, then create issue on Github.
Want to add a new language to Featured Image with URL? Swell! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org.
1.0.7 – 2026-08-20
Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 7.1
1.0.6 – 2026-07-14
IMPROVEMENTS Enhanced XSS Protection
1.0.5 – 2026-06-22
Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 7.0
1.0.4 – 2024-12-06
Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.9
Dev: Add PHPCS and Plugin Check GitHub action
1.0.3 – 2024-12-09
Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.7
Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.6
Changed: Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 9.2
1.0.1
Added: Backward compatibility for the “Featured Image by URL” plugin.
1.0.0
Initial Version.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
external featured image
external image url
featured image
image url
remote featured image
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity20 Aug 20262mo ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
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