Question about related posts thumbnails

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  pjdonna · Member · Nov 12, 2013 at 12:30 pm

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  with reference to this article – http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/related/

  For related posts, if my images are hosted externally on a service like photobucket, flickr or instagram, will they show in the thumbnails? Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 4:37 am

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  Hi there,
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/related/

  We will use the featured image as the thumbnail if it exists otherwise we will fallback to the first image in the post body.

  If there is an image from a 3rd party in your post as long as it’s publicly accessible we will use the WordPress.com servers to pull the image in, scale it to the appropriate size, then serve it as the post thumbnail.
  Unfortunately there’s no way to adjust thumbnail sizes at the moment, we’ll look into supporting custom sizes in the future.