How to prevent WP from automatically downloading the external image in WPSE

  • Resolved painlessseo

    (@painlessseo)


    10 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi, I use this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/featured-image-from-url/ to add an external image as the feature image. It works if you add it in the standard Post Editor.

    When it comes to WPSE, in order to make it work, I need to add the external URL to both [featured image] and [fifu_image_url] (if you add it in the standard Post Editor and come to WPSE to check, you will see what I mean).

    The problem is that if you add an external URL to [featured image] in WPSE, WP will automatically download the image and use it as the featured image. So it will lose the point of using an external image as the featured image.

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author Jose Vega

    (@josevega)

    Hi there.
    We have an extension for Featured Image from URL available to all our premium users at no extra cost, that works exactly as you would need. It has a column where you can enter the external image URL and it automatically saves it as an external URL using the FIFU plugin.

    Please open a support ticket on our website, because this is not our official support channel and we can’t provide assistance for premium functionality here.

    Thread Starter painlessseo

    (@painlessseo)

    It sounds great! Do you have link for the extension you mentioned so I can take a look? Thank you.

    Plugin Author Jose Vega

    (@josevega)

    There’s no link. When you use our premium plugin, the plugin automatically detects what plugins you’re using and shows a popup to download all the required extensions so you can edit the fields as seamless as possible.

    Thread Starter painlessseo

    (@painlessseo)

    Okay, which premium version do I need? Right now I’d only consider the premium version that works in this scenario. I understand you offer many other addons but I wanted to start with a specific premium addon. Thank you.

    Thread Starter painlessseo

    (@painlessseo)

    Hi, I just reached out to another webmaster that actually recommended your plugin. She did a quick testing on one of her sites and she can confirm that if you add the URL to [Featured Image], WP will automatically download the image, which loses the point of using the external image. However, in order to make FIFU work, it seems that you need to add the URL to both [Featured Image] and [fifu_image_url]. She has the premium version of this https://wpsheeteditor.com/extensions/posts-pages-post-types-spreadsheet/

    Plugin Author Jose Vega

    (@josevega)

    If you’re editing posts, you need this premium version: https://wpsheeteditor.com/extensions/posts-pages-post-types-spreadsheet/

    Regarding your friend, is she using our FIFU extension? Our FIFU extension adds the column “FIFU Image URL” and you only edit in that column, the featured image column is no longer used.

    Thread Starter painlessseo

    (@painlessseo)

    Great, I will check it out the premium version.

    Regarding FIFU, I believe she is using the FIFU from https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/featured-image-from-url/

    I will ask her to test with your FIFU version, but she is new to your plugin too and she mainly uses it for her woocommerce store.

    Thank you!

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