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The Add image to Post plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert a image to your post from external link. The plugin scan the external website to find the most revelant image and add it as a featured image associated to a post. The plugin only trigger when your articles page (single) is loaded once, after that, the image become the post featured image and create a custom field with the name “gc_thumb” and give you the full url of the new image location on your server. More infos at http://www.appsmobiledev.com/wordpress-add-image-to-post-plugin
Work well for Autoblog WordPress blog like Autobloggeg or WPRobot.
Your theme may already be set to show featured image in loop, like the home page, search and tags and may work right after instalation and setting.
if(has_post_thumbnail()) {
the_post_thumbnail();
}
Give size (usually, you can set thumnbail size in your WordPress Settings => Media => Thumbnail size)
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} ?>
The Add image to Post plugin automatically create a new Post Meta named: gc_thumb
if(get_post_meta($post_id, “gc_thumb”, true))
{
$gc_img_link = get_post_meta($post_id , “gc_thumb”, true);
echo ”;
}