A small lightweight plugin to set external/remote images as post thumbnail/featured image.

Mohamed Tawfik

WK URL 2 WP Thumb

This plugin let you add a featured image to a post using external URL.

Nirmal Kumar Ram

Magnigenie

<p>WP Remote Thumbnail is a very lightweight WordPress plugin that comes with zero configuration and one-click setup. Using this plugin, you can easily set any external image as the featured image of any post/page or even custom post types.</p>
<p>This plugin automatically adds a custom metabox to each post type that supports post thumbnails. You just need to copy and paste the URL of any image into the metabox and click publish/update.</p>
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