WP Remote Thumbnail
by Nirmal Kumar Ram on WordPress.org
A small lightweight plugin to set external/remote images as post thumbnail/featured image.
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Add remote thumbnail URL and click publish/update.
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.
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.
Active installations100+
Weekly downloads
22-51.11%
Version1.3.2
Last updated4/18/2025
WordPress version4.4
Tested up to6.8.1
PHP version5.4
Tags
external featured imagefeatured imageremote featured imageremote thumbnailurl to featured image