Description
WordPress plugin for remote 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 a remote image as featured image of your post, page or custom post type.
- Remote 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
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 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
- Remote product image
- Lightbox and zoom
- [PRO] Gallery for remote images
- [PRO] Gallery for remote 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
Screenshots
Featured image
Image search
Featured video
Image gallery for WooCommerce products
Image gallery for WooCommerce product variations
Quick edit
Widgets for Elementor
Settings Help
Settings Image
Settings Video
Settings Slider
Settings Audio
Settings Automatic
Settings WooCommerce
Settings WP All Import
Settings Metadata
Settings Developers
Installation
Install FIFU from within WordPress
- Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’;
- Search for ‘FIFU’;
- Activate FIFU from your Plugins page;
Install FIFU manually
- Upload the ‘featured-image-from-url’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory;
- Activate the FIFU plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress;
FAQ
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- Your image URL is invalid. Take a look at Settings Getting started.
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Does FIFU save the images in the media library?
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- No. Only the PRO version is capable of doing this, but it is optional. The plugin was designed to work with external images.
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Why the featured image is being displayed twice?
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- You enabled “Modify Post Content add featured media” option unnecessarily.
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Why the featured image is not being displayed?
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- Please check if “Hide Featured Media” option is unduly enabled.
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Why are there no changes after updating the settings?
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- Try to clear your cache.
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Is any action necessary before removing FIFU?
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- Access settings and clear the metadata.
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What’s the metadata created by FIFU?
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- Database registers that help WordPress components to work with remote images. This plugin can generate the metadata of ~50,000 image URLs per minute.
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What are the disadvantages of remote images?
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- No image optimization or thumbnails by default. You can fix that with ‘Optimized Images’ feature.
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What are the advantages of remote images?
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- You save money on storage, processing and copyright. And you can have extremely fast import processes.
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Is it legal to embed images without permission?
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- Yes, it is. Click here to know more.
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Do remote images affect SEO?
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- No, remote images don’t affect SEO. Click here to know more.
Reviews
June 25, 2025
1 reply
By far, FIFU is the best plugin I have ever downloaded and installed for my site. It saves me so much time, I’ve been able to move foward so quickly with a large number of new product additions that used to take forever to add to my store. I will never go back to the ‘old way’ after using FIFU.
May 21, 2025
2 replies
almost every twoday i received new update notification, i run my site for less than a month, i now
November 17, 2024
Fast support and awesome plugin
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.
June 19, 2024
really recommend.
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
Contributors & Developers
“Featured Image from URL (FIFU)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
5.2.0
- Enhancement: Image Not Found message displayed in the post editor when the image URL is invalid; Fix: vulnerability reported by Wordfence (improved validation of values added in FIFU fields via post editor for better security); Fix: potential undefined index notices.
5.1.9
- Notice: the plugin collects the theme name anonymously (the goal is to identify the most common themes and ensure FIFU works correctly with all of them).
5.1.8
- Fix: Optimized Images (performance issue when serving full image size and possible conflicts with images from Cloudinary); Fix: images in the WooCommerce product gallery (not displayed when Optimized Images was disabled).