Title: featured image using external url
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# featured image using external url

 *  Resolved [heralho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heralho/)
 * (@heralho)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-using-external-url/)
 * how to get featured image from external url?
    because it wil be more reduce bandwidth
   usage. and all image on my blog it is from flickr.
 * thank you

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 *  Theme Author [Caroline Moore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sixhours/)
 * (@sixhours)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-using-external-url/#post-3909537)
 * This is not possible with WordPress core. You may be able to find a plugin to
   do so.
 *  [akshaylal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akshaylal/)
 * (@akshaylal)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-using-external-url/#post-3909633)
 * Anyone come across a plugin that achieves this, without copying the image onto
   your own server?

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