Thumbnails from external images

  • Resolved kislany

    (@kislany)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve been looking for a related posts plugin that works with images in posts that are from external sources. So far I couldn’t get this plugin to work, so before I give up, I’d rather ask if this plugin is working with external images for thumbnails? For featured images in my posts I am using the External Featured Image plugin, so my posts do have a featured image, just not located on my own website.

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Do you know where External Featured Image saves the image URL? If this is in a meta key, you can enter this in the Settings page of my plugin and it should be able to fetch that URL from there.

    Another option is to enter the image you want to use for the thumbnail in the Metabox of the plugin when composing/editing posts.

    Thread Starter kislany

    (@kislany)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    I’ll check out the option to enter the thumbnail in the metabox, thanks, haven’t check that out yet.

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    What’s the link to the plugin you use to manage the featured thumbnail?

    Thread Starter kislany

    (@kislany)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    It’s this one:

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/featured-image-from-url/

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Can you enter this in the options page -> Post thumbnail meta field to see if it works automatically?

    fifu_image_url

    This should, in theory, directly give you the URL of the post.

    Thread Starter kislany

    (@kislany)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Ok, I’ve just replaced the text that was there with this new one, and now the images come through perfectly.

    Thank you!

    Thread Starter kislany

    (@kislany)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Actually, one more question, although I’m not sure whether maybe I should ask it separately. It works beautifully, but when I select the no-style option and add my own values (it’s a list of related books, so I can’t have a formatted 150×150 pixels output), I get the list of related posts in rows rather than all in one column. Is it possible to have the same output format as when I select the Rounded thumbnails option?

    Edit – nevermind about this issue, I created a custom size in Genesis, and when I selected it, the list comes in one row with x nummber of columns. So all good! Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by kislany.
    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Glad to know this worked well for you. Do consider a review if this plugin works well for you!

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