I have been searching high and low for a work-around to set a featured image from an external URL. I understand by default the image must be on my server to get re-sized and displayed.
Essentially I have a dozen live web cams that take pictures every 30 minutes, and I need to be able to set up a wall of good sized thumbs like this so all images can be scanned on one page.
Please let me know if you can provide a quick snippet that can help.