Comments on: idea for a wordpress plugin: copy linked images to server

By: pat

pat — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:57:38 +0000

Excellent - that looks like it almost does the trick, but in addition to fixing new entries, I would also like it to go back through my previous entries and apply the fix.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:10:23 +0000

Oops, never mind. Here’s the plugin you (we) need:

Wordpress Post Filter

When activated, plugin will do the following tasks:

* Download and cache all external images to your wp-content directory so this post will reference them locally and you won’t steal someone else’s bandwidth;
* Optionally you may request to auto resize images (if you blog is narow!) and add them into Wordpress attachments area.
* Optionally you may request to strip all id, style, class attributes so you will not follow other site’s classes and styles.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:07:38 +0000

That’s a great idea.

lr2ImageSnag looks to be at least close to it.

Wordpress Image Transload will probably be my choice until the plugin you describe exists.

Your plugin idea would be even better if it went ahead and cached the image at the moment that you hit “Post”.