I have a wordpress website that uses a plugin to insert images from PhotoShelter pages and posts. If I want to insert the images directly into content then this is fine, however, I can't currently use it to set featured images.
The plugin basically allows you to browse all of the photos on PhotoShelter through the standard image upload screen, and then when you click "insert into post" it hot links to the image on PhotoShelter. It doesn't attach it to the post in any way and the image doesn't appear in the Media Library.
Is there a way to look for images in the_content(), strip it out (I don't want images to display in the content area) and save it into an array along with the post ID? That way I could then use it for blog thumbnails in the archive template and elsewhere within the loop in my page template. Or maybe there is a way to change the featured image feature to allow me to select images from PhotoShelter?
This is the plugin I'm using: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/photoshelter-official-plugin/
Open to any suggestions on how to achieve this.
Thanks in advance :)