Some novice users, when starting out,
After building your own websiteconsider server costs and may choose some free or cheap Shared Hosting to build their websites. One issue with this cheap Shared Hosting is that the server capacity is small, and the bandwidth is also limited. If your website has many images, it can easily reach the server limits and get suspended. Another scenario is that you are using an overseas server with relatively slow network speeds, so you want to use some domestic image hosting services to upload images and reference them on your website. However, featured images are still generated from your own server, and externally linked images are not easy to manage. Therefore, the
External Media without Importplugin introduced in this article can help you solve these problems.
Plugin Introduction
External Media without Import is a WordPress plugin originally created by a Chinese developer. The purpose of its creation was also because the author's initial server performance was poor, so they considered using externally linked images. However, the author has now switched to using
a Vultr server for their website, so this plugin hasn't been updated for a while, but its functionality still works on WordPress 5.3.1.
DescriptionBy default, adding images to the WordPress Media Library requires you to import or upload the images to your WordPress site, meaning a copy of the image file must exist on the site. Using this plugin, you can simply add the URL linking to the remote image address to add images stored on external sites to the Media Library. This way, you can host images on a dedicated server other than your WordPress site and still be able to display them using various gallery plugins that fetch images solely from the Media Library. The plugin provides buttons and input fields on the „Media“ -> „Add New“ page, the media upload panel, and a dedicated „External Media without Import“ submenu page. Therefore, you can add external media before (or after) editing any Post or Page, or during the editing process of a Post or Page, without interrupting the editing workflow.
Plugin Usage and Download
Using External Media without Import is very simple. After installation, when uploading images, an additional option for External Media without Import will appear. Just enter the image URL, and it supports batch adding. Then all images will be in your Media Library information. You can add them to multiple posts or set them as featured images, without occupying any server disk space.
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DescriptionBy default, adding images to the WordPress Media Library requires you to import or upload the images to your WordPress site, meaning a copy of the image file must exist on the site. Using this plugin, you can simply add the URL linking to the remote image address to add images stored on external sites to the Media Library. This way, you can host images on a dedicated server other than your WordPress site and still be able to display them using various gallery plugins that fetch images solely from the Media Library. The plugin provides buttons and input fields on the „Media“ -> „Add New“ page, the media upload panel, and a dedicated „External Media without Import“ submenu page. Therefore, you can add external media before (or after) editing any Post or Page, or during the editing process of a Post or Page, without interrupting the editing workflow.
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