[wp-forums] Is it possible to set featured images from URL?

[Mika A Epstein]

Not possible.

Featured images have to be uploaded to your site for the kinda obvious reason of resizing :) Also hotlinking, and the way themes integrate with featured images.

Since it 'reuses' the normal uploader screen, the from URL tab is still there.

It'd be nice if we could remove that tab, but the whole featured image workflow is a little borked :/

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Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
http://ipstenu.org | http://halfelf.org

On 1 Jul 2012, at 6:24:24PM, Francisco de Azevedo wrote:

> Hi.
> This user is reporting he/she can't set featured images from a URL:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-featured-image-via-url?replies=1.
> I checked and I wasn't able to either (all plugins deactivated, 2011 theme).
> Is that intentional or is it a bug?
> It seems to me that if setting featured images from URLs is not allowed,
> the "From URL" tab should be hidden so as to prevent confusion.
> Cheers!
> 
> Marventus
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Francisco de Azevedo <
> frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I will. Sometimes when giving long directives I wish I had another
>> formatting tool other than <em> and <strong> for organizing the reply, but
>> like I said, really not a big deal.
>> Thanks for the quick reply Otto.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Francisco de Azevedo
>>> <frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello everybody!
>>>> This is not a very big deal at all, but I've had this doubt in the back
>>> of
>>>> my head since I started helping out in the forums. Does anyone know why
>>> the
>>>> HTML underline ( <u> ) tag is not supported in the forums? Could it be a
>>>> security measure?
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Marventus
>>> 
>>> The <u> tag was deprecated since HTML 4 and was only recently added
>>> back to the HTML living standard and incorporated into HTML 5.
>>> Therefore lots of places don't support it.
>>> 
>>> Really, <u> is a non-semantic tag and should generally not be used.
>>> It's easily confused with a normal link.
>>> 
>>> Use <em> and <strong> if you want to add emphasis instead.
>>> 
>>> -Otto
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