Download External Images In Posts

Description

If you want to download external images in your posts automatically so the page will use local image files instead of external image files then this plugin can help you.

It will replace the URLs of all external images (if the image has a different host URL) in your posts.

The URLs will get replaced with a local image copy URLs.

The action will be made on the post/page preview, not in the admin Edit page or after post save.

All the images that will be saved to your uploads folder (wp-content\uploads), not to your Media Library page.

This plugin can make your work faster if you like to use external images from other sites and you would like not to lose times on uploading images into you library every time for every image.

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
To change the settings, go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Download External Images In Posts
That’s it!

Screenshots

Admin Panel of the plugin.
In the edit post page we can see that we have an external image URL
On the page view we see that the image URL is changed with a local copy image URL (the result)

Faq

Installation Instructions

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
To change the settings, go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Download External Images In Posts
That’s it!

Why should I use this plugin?

When you have a lot of images from external sites, and you think it takes a lot of time to load or you want to have a copy of them into your site local folder.

Where the external images will be saved?

The external images will be saved into your wp-content/uploads folder.

Will the plugin add all external images into Media Library page?

No.

Will it break any other plugins?

I don’t think so.

Won’t this conflict with plugins?

Well I can’t tell for sure.

Can you add a feature X?

Depends, if its useful enough and I have time for it.

Reviews

It does exactly what it says

By danielepais on February 25, 2024

Despite being an old plugin still work flawlessly and if you happen to generate pages for XML / CSV feeds import this plugin is great to extract those external images and saving into your local wp-uploads so that you are not using somebody else's images/bandwidth.

Best Plugin

By ameen.akbar on September 27, 2018

I have checked many plugin like this, but this is the Best. I can import all external attachment with one click.

Worst concept - Advising to not to use

By Sazzad Hossain Sharkar (sharkar) on April 3, 2018

This is the worst concept I have ever seen. This plugin should be reported. I don't know what is the main concept of the plugin is. If you enable this plugin and start working with it, it downloads 1 content 100th of times or every time when someone visits the post. Even it consumes storage because everytime someone visits, first the plugin downloads and files to internally and then serve. Within the middle of the time, visitors need to wait for the download and serve the content. Therefore, SORRY TO SAY BUT, THIS IS A FLOP PROJECT.

Greate plugin

By kukungkung on March 15, 2018

Greate plugin, save a lot of time for me

I love your plugins

By hldvuong on January 1, 2018

I test in WordPress 4.8.2 I hope it will work good in 4.9.x

OK

By cherryaustin on July 30, 2017

Sorry, I reviewed the wrong product. This works OK but I preferred another plugin.

Great plugin!

By dagnarus on June 15, 2017

I love to see people doing some right stuff!:) Thanks for your plugin! 🙂

Very usefull

By eldb (Przemyslaw Napierala) on January 24, 2017

It works.

IT WORKS

By Alexandru Vornicescu (alexvorn2) on January 22, 2017

For me it works

Changelog

1.0

First release.