How to add a YouTube thumbnail as a featured image in WordPress

February 20, 2015 1:27 pm Published by

The video above shows you how to embed a YouTube video into a WordPress blog (which you probably already know) and then how to grab the associated thumbnail and use it as a featured image thumbnail.

Here are the URLs mentioned in the video:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/0.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/1.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/2.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/3.jpg

http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/default.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/hqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/mqdefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/sddefault.jpg
http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/maxresdefault.jpg

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