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Alternatives to Featured Image from External Sources
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WP Remote Thumbnailv1.3.2
A small lightweight plugin to set external/remote images as post thumbnail/featured image.
Generate Featured Images automatically based on your post content (title, etc). Customize your featured image with the built in template editor.
Automatically set a default featured image for all WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types — no more missing thumbnails, ever.
Display a Masonry Thumbnail Grid of Featured Images, including captions and excerpts.
Automatically set missing featured images from the first image or a YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion video in your content.
Automatically creates a title-text thumbnail and sets it as the featured image for posts that don't have one — with a live preview.
Adds the featured image attached to posts to the beginning of the post content and excerpt in RSS feeds.
Generate featured images from Bing, GPT Image, Unsplash and more. Automatic, bulk or Gutenberg — based on your post title.
Set featured images from the Media Library, one at a time or in bulk. Each selected image is assigned to the post it is attached to.