Python WordPress REST API - Post Featured Image as external URL-CodePudding

is it possibile to post in wordpress the featured image as hotlink (external url), without hosting the image on the server?

See the line that should be fixed:

"featured_image": 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/f/fc/Pippo_Disney.png'

postDict = {
    "title": 'Hi',
    "content": 'My Content',
    "date": '2020-08-17T10:16:34',
    "featured_image": 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/f/fc/Pippo_Disney.png', # IMPORTANT
}

If it is not possibile, any ideas to do that is really welcome, thank you

CodePudding user response：

By default, WordPress doesn't support external links for featured images. However, there're some plugins implementing this feature:

You'll have to research their source code to understand how to use them from the REST API.

CodePudding user response：

There is a simple trick for this. You can paste a link for external img for example to excerpt, and then you can get this url by using get_the_excerpt https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_excerpt/. In posts listing use

<img src="<?php echo get_the_excerpt( $post_id ); ?>">