Using External URLs for Featured Images

We've just begun using the News theme for Wordpress.
It is our intention to serve our images from an external source (not via the WP Media Gallery) - including featured images.

We've discovered a plugin that allows for external urls to be used for featured images. Its called Link2Featured. http://epicplugins.com/external-url-link-to-featured-images/

We've tested using 'News' and the featured images aren't showing. The instructions say that the theme must use

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get_the_post_thumbnail();

in its coding.

Can you please confirm if 'News' uses this function and if not is there a workaround to add it in?

thanks for any help.

it uses the_post_thumbnail() but it is exact same function, the only difference is that it echoes out result.

Thanks. So by 'echoing out result' - is that the reason for it not working? Is there a possible fix for it that you know of?

It should work.
It is as simple as:

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function the_post_thumbnail( $size = 'post-thumbnail', $attr = '' ) {
   echo get_the_post_thumbnail( null, $size, $attr );
}


It seems problem lies somewhere else.

thanks for your help, but I need clear instructions - sorry.
Such as which file should I be editing and where?

You need to ask for support of the 3rd party plugin developer.
In tempalate everything is set as it should.