Featured Image Plugin from URL Premium v4.8.7

Use external image / video / slider as featured image of your post / page or custom post type (WooCommerce product). Includes auto setup, product gallery, social tagging, and more.

Features:

• ideal for external posts, the plugin can use the first image / video as the featured image;
• when accessing the table of publications / pages / products / categories in the admin menu, the selected images are displayed in a new column;
• if your theme does not show featured images on posts / pages / products, it is possible to automatically include them at the beginning of the content;
• but if your theme shows featured images on posts / pages / products, there is an option to remove featured images;
• with lazy loading function, images / videos will not load until the user scrolls through them, which will speed up loading of the home page / store;
• all included content still has social tags to facilitate sharing on social media;
• Compatible with WP All Import plugin and WooCommerce imports;
• some non-standard image URLs like Instagram and Google Drive will work as well.
• you can define the default external displayed image to be displayed when there is no selected image;
• You can turn off the product lightbox and zoom;
• You can apply your own CSS style or 18 image hover effects;
• Supports WP REST API (extended feature)
• allows you to schedule a cron event to set all first images as favorites. So it can work hourly, daily, etc. (Premium feature);
• all features built for external images are available for external videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Cloudinary and Tumblr. For YouTube videos, you can set the player options. And you can define the video size for each screen type (premium feature);
• you can use the image slider as “Featured Image” (premium feature);
• you can use an external thumbnail or external video (from YouTube, Vimeo, Cloudinary, or Tumblr) as a “featured image” (premium feature);
• You can use any content provided by the shortcode as a “featured image” (BETA premium feature);
  automatic adjustment of product category images, with each image selected from external product images from that category (premium feature);
• You can also use external images in WooCommerce product gallery, product categories and variable products (premium feature);
• You can use external thumbnails from Flickr to make your site 94% faster (premium feature)
• it is able to crop all external images in the store / house to one size (premium feature);
• auto play / pause video when mouse hover / off (advanced function);
• replace broken URLs by default (advanced feature);