leemon

Add external media from a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds" rel="nofollow ugc">supported oEmbed provider</a> (YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Twitter, …) to the media library

Add External Media

Meets expectations

Great plugin, thanks! I just miss the feature of adding it directly in the WordPress Media

Great plugin

jmarreros

This Plugin allows to use an external image as Featured Image, this can be especially useful if you house your images in another location.
This Plugin is compatible with Nelio External Featured Image Metadata, so you can reuse your data in case you want to uninstall Nelio Plugin.

External URL Featured Image

It is what I was looking for: simplicity.

$external_image = get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_dcms_eufi_img', true );

Works well for me

Use an external url image as Featured Image for your posts, pages, and other kind of post types.

Add External Media vs External URL Featured Image