WordPress plugin for remote featured images and more

FIFU has helped thousands of websites worldwide save storage, processing resources, and time 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 the featured image of your post, page, custom post type, or WooCommerce product.

• Remote featured image
• Featured image alternative text
• Optimized images
• Make all images square
• Image search with Unsplash
• Default featured image
• Hide featured media
• Modify post content
• Auto set image title
• Featured image column
• Quick Edit
• [PRO] Image search with a search engine
• 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

Category image

Use a remote image for categories and other supported taxonomy terms.

• Remote category image
• Category image alternative text

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 screenshot as featured image
• [PRO] Auto-share on social media

Automation

• WP-CLI integration
• Developer functions
• [PRO] Add-on for WP All Import
• [PRO] WooCommerce import
• [PRO] Advanced REST API integrations

WooCommerce

• Remote product image
• Lightbox and zoom
• Remote product category image
• [PRO] Gallery for remote images
• [PRO] Gallery for remote videos
• [PRO] Category images auto set
• [PRO] Variable product image tools
• [PRO] Variation image tools
• [PRO] Gallery for variation images
• [PRO] Save in the media library
• [PRO] FIFU product gallery
• [PRO] Quick Buy
• [PRO] Add image to order email

Featured video

The PRO version supports featured videos from services and external video files.

• [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

Widgets for Elementor

• Featured image
• [PRO] Featured video

Fields for Gravity Forms

• Featured image
• [PRO] Featured video
• [PRO] Featured slider

Fields for Dokan

• Featured image
• [PRO] Product gallery

Other PRO features

• [PRO] Featured audio
• [PRO] Featured slider
• [PRO] Image and video galleries
• [PRO] Shortcodes
• [PRO] Advanced WooCommerce media features

Functions for developers

• Featured image: fifu_dev_set_image($post_id, $image_url)
• Product category image: fifu_dev_set_category_image($term_id, $image_url)
• [PRO] Featured video: fifu_dev_set_video($post_id, $video_url)
• [PRO] Featured slider: fifu_dev_set_slider($post_id, $url_list, $alt_list)
• [PRO] Product image + Image gallery: fifu_dev_set_image_list($post_id, $image_url_list)
• [PRO] Product video + Video gallery: fifu_dev_set_video_list($post_id, $video_url_list)
• [PRO] Product category video: fifu_dev_set_category_video($term_id, $video_url)

FIFU Cloud

• Cloud storage
• Global CDN
• Optimized thumbnails
• Automatic cloud upload and deletion scheduling
• Hotlink protection

Links

• FIFU PRO
• Dummy site for testing
• Extension for Google Chrome
• Smoke Test

Install FIFU from within WordPress

1. Visit the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard and select “Add New”.
2. Search for “FIFU”.
3. Install and activate FIFU.

Install FIFU manually

1. Upload the featured-image-from-url folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate FIFU through the Plugins menu in WordPress.

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   Featured image

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   Image search

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   Featured image settings

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   WooCommerce remote product image

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   Quick Edit

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   Elementor integration

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   Category image

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   Settings → Help

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   Settings → Image

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    Settings → Automatic

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    Settings → WooCommerce

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    Settings → Metadata

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    Settings → Developers

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    FIFU Cloud

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6.1.2

• New: Disable right-click on frontend images from FIFU settings.
• Fix: Resolved PHP 8.5 and newer deprecation warnings during remote image URL validation.
• Compatibility: Improved compatibility with PHP 8.5 and PHP 8.6.

6.1.1

• Fix: Explicit FIFU featured image removals and replacements are no longer overwritten by later Content Egg synchronization.
• Fix: The Status page now shows DB2-backed featured image URLs correctly even when the site is using legacy mode.
• Enhancement: Combined the PRO Featured Video and Featured Audio settings preview into a single Video / Audio section.
• Compatibility: Added support for WordPress 7.1.3.

6.1.0

• Fix: Preserved query-dependent featured image URLs in Rank Math Facebook and Twitter social metadata.
• Enhancement: Removed the outdated Troubleshooting page from the FIFU menu.

6.0.9

• Enhancement: Unified the Featured Media editor with the new Premium-style layout and improved the Quick Editor experience.
• Enhancement: Improved featured image preview, alternative text editing, and locked PRO media controls in the editor.
• Enhancement: Unified the product category featured media editor.
• Enhancement: Added WP Automatic Pro integration for FIFU remote featured images.
• Fix: Rank Math now preserves query parameters in social image URLs.
• Fix: Rank Math now detects FIFU alternative text correctly for featured images.
• Fix: Eliminated repeated FIFU attachment-author database queries to improve performance.
• Compatibility: Added support for WordPress 7.1.2 and WooCommerce 11.1.2.

6.0.8

• Fix: Security issue reported by the Patchstack team.

6.0.7

• Fix: Database updates can now retry after a failed update.

6.0.6

• Enhancement: Manual metadata generation and cleanup now use a faster browser-driven workflow.
• Fix: Improved the Clear Metadata tool with more reliable processing and progress reporting.
• Performance: Improved compatibility with FacetWP to avoid unnecessary image processing.
• Fix: Remote product images are now handled correctly when duplicating WooCommerce products.
• Fix: Improved compatibility with themes and plugins that provide WordPress object IDs as numeric strings.
• Fix: Signed CDN image URLs now work correctly with Unicode characters.
• Fix: Improved compatibility with block-based editors by preventing conflicting WordPress editor scripts from being loaded.
• Fix: Improved WoodMart compatibility by preventing remote FIFU images from being processed as local thumbnails.

6.0.5

• Fix: Featured images are now synchronized correctly with third-party plugins that process posts immediately after they are saved.
• Fix: WooCommerce product featured images no longer disappear after changing a product permalink.

6.0.4

• Fix: Fixed featured image synchronization in the block editor (Gutenberg) when setting, changing, or removing a remote featured image.

6.0.3

• Fix: Restored remote featured images correctly in the Classic Editor, including when changing or removing an existing featured image.
• Fix: Rank Math social image URLs now remain secure HTTPS URLs instead of being changed to HTTP.
• Fix: Fixed database setup and upgrade compatibility with MariaDB 10.3.
• Fix: Featured image width and height are now saved correctly on the first editor save.
• Performance: Prevented repeated database upgrade work on WordPress Multisite installations.
• Compatibility: WordPress 7.1.