{"id":1087425,"date":"2016-03-10T13:37:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/import-event-featured-image-with-csv-file-point-towards-existing-media\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:35:08","slug":"import-event-featured-image-with-csv-file-point-towards-existing-media","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/import-event-featured-image-with-csv-file-point-towards-existing-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Import Event Featured Image with CSV file: point towards existing Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have already loaded in my Media Library the images to be associated as Featured Images to some events, and I would just like to point towards these media when I import events from a CSV file. If I do so and report the url from that media, the very same picture will be reloaded as many times as it appears in the CSV file (-&gt; many duplicates in my Media Library), causing waste of resource and crash (Gateway Time-out error). Isn&#8217;t there any way to just <strong>point towards an existing image in the Media Library<\/strong>? Using the permalink doesn&#8217;t work neither&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternative<\/em>: as I need to use many times the same image for some events belonging to the same category, isn&#8217;t there a way to associate a <strong>default Featured Image to an Event Category<\/strong> (typically, they would be possibly overwritten when managing a single event, but I don&#8217;t even need that)? That would be fairly economical, as it means we would just need to define a Featured Image once that would be reused as many times as needed for the events that are set to belong to that category&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1087425","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Import Event Featured Image with CSV file: point towards existing Media -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/import-event-featured-image-with-csv-file-point-towards-existing-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Import Event Featured Image with CSV file: point towards existing Media -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have already loaded in my Media Library the images to be associated as Featured Images to some events, and I would just like to point towards these media when I import events from a CSV file. 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