Make no mistake, we love EasyAzon Pro Download: Plugin for Amazon Affiliates. The plugin works as advertised and makes it really easy to add Amazon Associates links from the WordPress backend.
However, like many of our customers, we think it makes sense to use an Amazon Associates link for the featured image on our affilate posts. Otherwise, it seems we need to save that image separately and upload it as a media file in order to set the ‘featured image.’ This is alot of extra work and we are lazy. After all, that is why we are using EasyAzon to begin with.
Unfortunately, by default, EasyAzon Pro Download does not let you set the featured image with EasyAzon. Fortunately, there is a workaround.
The Workaround:
Download “Nelio External Featured Image” plugin for free.
This plugin (like many others of its kind) lets you define an external link as your ‘featured image’ on a post or product.
Now, you can use EasyAzon to generate the external link for the Amazon product image of your choice, and simply paste that in the field for ‘External Featured Image’ that now appears on post and product pages, courtesy of Nelio External Featured Image.
Voila!