Bill Erickson

When you upload an image, WordPress will automatically scale/crop it to many different sizes. If you’re not happy with the auto-crops, use this plugin to upload an alternative image.
If you have images showing up in your theme already, there’s nothing you need to do after activating this plugin. All WordPress functions that provide the thumbnail should now automatically work with your override image.
This plugin will add a metabox to every post type and allow you to modify every image size (built-in and custom ones added using add_image_size). You can use two filters to change these (image_override_post_types and image_override_sizes). For examples, see the documentation.
<a href="https://github.com/billerickson/Image-Override/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
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Image Override

Allows you to override WordPress' auto generated thumbnails.

fifu.app

<h3>WordPress plugin for remote featured images, videos, audios and more</h3>
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.
<h4>Featured image</h4>
Use a remote image as featured image of your post, page or custom post type.
<ul>
<li>Remote featured image</li>
<li>Optimized images</li>
<li>Make all images square</li>
<li>Image search (Unsplash)</li>
<li>Default featured image</li>
<li>Hide featured media</li>
<li>Modify post content</li>
<li>Auto set image title</li>
<li>Column for featured image</li>
<li>[PRO] Image search (search engine)</li>
<li>[PRO] Disable right-click</li>
<li>[PRO] Save in the media library</li>
<li>[PRO] Replace not found image</li>
<li>[PRO] Custom popup</li>
<li>[PRO] bbPress and BuddyBoss Platform integration</li>
<li>[PRO] Page redirection</li>
</ul>
<h4>Automatic featured media</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto set featured media from post content</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set featured image using post title and a search engine</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set featured media using web page address</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set product images from ASIN</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set featured media from custom field</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set featured image using ISBN</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set screenshot as featured image</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto set featured image from Unsplash using tags</li>
<li>[PRO] Auto-share on social media</li>
</ul>
<h4>Automation</h4>
<ul>
<li>WP-CLI integration</li>
<li>[PRO] Add-on for WP All Import</li>
<li>[PRO] WooCommerce import</li>
<li>[PRO] WP REST API</li>
<li>[PRO] WooCommerce REST API</li>
<li>[PRO] Schedule metadata generation</li>
</ul>
<h4>WooCommerce</h4>
<ul>
<li>Remote product image</li>
<li>Lightbox and zoom</li>
<li>[PRO] Gallery for remote images</li>
<li>[PRO] Gallery for remote videos</li>
<li>[PRO] Category images auto set</li>
<li>[PRO] Variable product</li>
<li>[PRO] Variation image</li>
<li>[PRO] Gallery for variation image</li>
<li>[PRO] Save in the media library</li>
<li>[PRO] FIFU product gallery</li>
<li>[PRO] Quick Buy</li>
<li>[PRO] Add image to order email</li>
</ul>
<h4>Featured video</h4>
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.
<ul>
<li>[PRO] Featured video</li>
<li>[PRO] Watch later</li>
<li>[PRO] Video thumbnail</li>
<li>[PRO] Play button</li>
<li>[PRO] Minimum width</li>
<li>[PRO] Video controls</li>
<li>[PRO] Autoplay on mouseover</li>
<li>[PRO] Autoplay</li>
<li>[PRO] Playback loop</li>
<li>[PRO] Mute</li>
<li>[PRO] Privacy enhanced mode</li>
<li>[PRO] Background video</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widgets for Elementor</h4>
<ul>
<li>Featured image </li>
<li>[PRO] Featured video</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widgets for WordPress</h4>
<ul>
<li>[PRO] Featured media </li>
<li>[PRO] Featured grid</li>
<li>[PRO] Product gallery</li>
</ul>
<h4>Fields for Gravity-Forms</h4>
<ul>
<li>Featured image </li>
<li>[PRO] Featured video</li>
<li>[PRO] Featured slider</li>
</ul>
<h4>Fields for Dokan</h4>
<ul>
<li>Featured image </li>
<li>[PRO] Product gallery</li>
</ul>
<h4>Others</h4>
<ul>
<li>[PRO] Quick edit</li>
<li>[PRO] Featured audio</li>
<li>[PRO] Featured slider</li>
<li>[PRO] Shortcode</li>
<li>[PRO] Taxonomy image</li>
</ul>
<h4>Functions for developers</h4>
<ul>
<li>fifu_dev_set_image($post_id, $image_url)</li>
<li>[PRO] fifu_dev_set_video($post_id, $video_url)</li>
<li>[PRO] fifu_dev_set_slider($post_id, $url_list, $alt_list) </li>
<li>[PRO] fifu_dev_set_image_list($post_id, $image_url_list)</li>
<li>[PRO] fifu_dev_set_video_list($post_id, $video_url_list)</li>
<li>[PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_image($term_id, $image_url)</li>
<li>[PRO] fifu_dev_set_category_video($term_id, $video_url)</li>
</ul>
<h4>FIFU Cloud</h4>
<ul>
<li>Cloud storage (never lose an image again)</li>
<li>Global CDN (images loaded much faster)</li>
<li>Optimized thumbnails (processed in the cloud)</li>
<li>Usage-based billing (per stored image)</li>
<li>Smart cropping (detects people and objects before cropping)</li>
<li>Hotlink protection (sites can’t embed your images)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fifu.app/" rel="nofollow ugc">FIFU PRO</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tastewp.com/new?pre-installed-plugin-slug=featured-image-from-url&redirect=admin.php%3Fpage%3Dfeatured-image-from-url&ni=true" rel="nofollow ugc">Dummy site for testing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fifu-scraper/pccimcccbkdeeadhejdmnffmllpicola" rel="nofollow ugc">Extension for Google Chrome</a></li>
<li><a href="https://plugintests.com/plugins/wporg/featured-image-from-url/latest" rel="nofollow ugc">Smoke Test</a></li>
</ul>

Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

Use remote media as the featured image and beyond.

Image Override vs Featured Image from URL (FIFU)