Title: Download External Images In Posts Author: Alexandru Vornicescu Published: January 17, 2017 Last modified: December 15, 2017 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/download-external-images-in-posts/assets/banner-772x250.png? rev=1578760) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/download-external-images-in-posts/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev =1578543) # Download External Images In Posts By [Alexandru Vornicescu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexvorn2/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/download-external-images-in-posts.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-external-images-in-posts/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-external-images-in-posts/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-external-images-in-posts/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-external-images-in-posts/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/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. ## Screenshots [⌊Admin Panel of the plugin.⌉⌊Admin Panel of the plugin.⌉[ Admin Panel of the plugin. [⌊In the edit post page we can see that we have an external image URL⌉⌊In the edit post page we can see that we have an external image URL⌉[ 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)⌉⌊On the page view we see that the image URL is changed with a local copy image URL (the result)⌉[ On the page view we see that the image URL is changed with a local copy image URL( the result) ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress 3. To change the settings, go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Download External Images In Posts 4. That’s it! ## FAQ Installation Instructions 1. Upload the plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress 3. To change the settings, go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Download External Images In Posts 4. 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 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/69b74a8b449201f3e9e4c562803d8ede0bb97bd5ad04af631f12d6a7cac673ea? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[It does exactly what it says](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-does-exactly-what-it-says-44/)󠁿 [danielepais](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielepais/) 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2b9f1652d0849e9fe132ad087ab1321cfebbc8aa8883bc9890483ead8d208495? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-plugin-591/)󠁿 [ameen.akbar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ameenakbar/) September 27, 2018 I have checked many plugin like this, but this is the Best. I can import all external attachment with one click. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cb62ba65aef808b0561fa5cede2abbe1d1727c385f4da89a43692e4af0f1e29? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Worst concept – Advising to not to use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worst-concept-advising-to-not-to-use/)󠁿 [Sazzad Hossain Sharkar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sharkar/) April 3, 2018 4 replies 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1231c4b99052144367fd549d463df092a8063c0b4defcb15c235608e0cf1576b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Greate plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/greate-plugin-59/)󠁿 [kukungkung](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kukungkung/) March 15, 2018 Greate plugin, save a lot of time for me ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/722e9228b982ad0415508beb55ed8126b6216297003cae99ccdccaa327664c4a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[I love your plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-love-your-plugins/)󠁿 [hldvuong](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hldvuong/) January 1, 2018 I test in WordPress 4.8.2 I hope it will work good in 4.9.x ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fac02b4523bc289d905bd826af27caf1c36369fafdf0d48c7ce3172480e920f7? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[OK](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-automagically/)󠁿 [cherryaustin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cherryaustin/) July 30, 2017 2 replies Sorry, I reviewed the wrong product. This works OK but I preferred another plugin. [ Read all 9 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/download-external-images-in-posts/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Download External Images In Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Alexandru Vornicescu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexvorn2/) [Translate “Download External Images In Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/download-external-images-in-posts) ### Interested in development? 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