Featured video and image thumbnails from external links in WordPress

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Is there a way to get a thumbnail from any website link? For example, if I take a link from imgur and post it on my website in the post itself, it shows the image. But when I go to the homepage of my website there is no featured image for that post. Just a great box. How could I generate a featured image of any link I posted from an external website?

I have used the video thumbnail plugin but it only works with certain websites.

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  1. try going into page.php of your theme, then search for the_post_thmbnail(). There add the image link

    change this line:

    <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

    to something like this:

    <?php $name = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'ExternalUrl', true);
if( $name ) { ?>
<a href="<?php echo $name; ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></a>
<?php } else {
the_post_thumbnail();
} ?>

    hope this helps 🙂

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