Featured Image with URL

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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60 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 22 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 9 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 74% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ X.Company

   6mo ago

   Simple and super practical. It’s a must plugin in my sites.Easy setting, no bloat. I wish there’s a “import all featured image url from fifu” so I can get rid of that bloated plugin.

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2. ★★★★★ danielepais

   1.3y ago

   Excellent plugin that is very useful when you need to run your images from a remote server.

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3. ★★★★★ parikshit4024

   1.3y ago

   Excellent design

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4. ★★★★★ Nicolas Lagios

   1.4y ago

   I want to let you know that it is the perfect plugin for remote images. The solution if you are using WP All Import and you get the images from lets say {photos/photo} (this returns all the images separated by comma), is to create two functions that creates the serialized data to use it in custom fields: function get_featured_image($photos) {if (empty($photos)) return 'NO_PHOTOS';if (!is_array($photos)) { $photos = explode(',', $photos);}$first = trim($photos[0]);return serialize([ 'img_url' => $first, 'width' => '', 'height' => '']);}function get_gallery_images($photos) {if (empty($photos)) return '';if (!is_array($photos)) { $photos = explode(',', $photos);}if (count($photos) < 2) return '';$gallery = [];for ($i = 1; $i < count($photos); $i++) { $url = trim($photos[$i]); $gallery[] = [ 'url' => $url, 'width' => '', 'height' => '' ];}return serialize($gallery);} Then you just create a custom field for the featured image with name “_harikrutfiwu_url” and value: [get_featured_image({photos/photo})] And a custom field for gallery images with name “_harikrutfiwu_wcgallary” and value: [get_gallery_images({photos/photo})] That’s all. Happy Import with this amazing plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ basivnia

   1.5y ago

   I rarely give reviews but this plugin is my lifesaver and it’s hard not to recommend it. I’m using it for couple of months now and it works perfectly on older and newer vesions of WordPress. Simple, no 200 pages of settings, just install and use. The only thing that doesn’t work for me is Yoast SEO’s social media image preview which worked with older version of WordPress but doesn’t work with the latest, sadly. Other than this little thing, it’s simple, small and working well plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ rahaprogramming

   1.7y ago

   note the woocommerce rest api keys for images:meta_gallery = {"key": "_harikrutfiwu_wcgallary","value": [{"url": img_url} for img_url in product_images]}meta_featured = { # thumbnails"key": "_harikrutfiwu_url","value": product_images[0]}meta_featured_alt = {"key": "_knawatfibu_alt","value": product_images[0]}meta_images.append(meta_featured)product_data = {"name": product_title,"type": "simple","regular_price": str(product_price),"price": str(product_price),"sku": str(product_sku),"description": product_description,"short_description": product_short,"status": "publish","categories": category_ids,"meta_data": meta_images,#"images": images,"attributes":attributes_list}

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7. ★★★★★ aunco

   2.1y ago

   Full view Image distorted by the wrong width to height display ratio. This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by aunco.

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8. ★★★★★ km1303

   2.4y ago

   So i have been breaking my head against the internet looking for a simple plugin that could allow me to use featured images and gallery images from the url. And voila, i see featured images with URl. It is perhaps new, so there are only 60+ installations, hope it can reach more people. Can’t appreciate enough! It is a good no fuss plugin. Sometimes the best solutions in life are the simplest ones. Thanks to the creators. Fab job you people! May you have many more installations.

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The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.0.7). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.4 Featured Image with URL < 1.0.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-09-11 CVE-2026-86780 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects < 1.0.6 Patched in 1.0.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-04 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-02-03 2K+ → 1K+ down after 24 days in tier
3. 2026-01-10 1K+ → 2K+ up after 67 days in tier
4. 2025-11-04 2K+ → 1K+ down after 129 days in tier
5. 2025-06-28 3K+ → 2K+ down after 9 days in tier
6. 2025-06-19 5K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-06-18 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2025-06-16 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Featured Image with URL: 2K+ active installs, 4.9★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/featured-image-with-url