External Images massively speeds up product imports by hosting images on any 3rd party website. No image storage restrictions allow billion product stores on low-cost hosting. External Images works with all post types and supports all import tools.
FAQ
- How do I remove the extra placeholder added by my theme on the archive pages?
- How do I fix gallery images on product detail pages?
- For specific themes, widgets or shortcodes, External Images are not being displayed
- How to force non-SSL images to be converted to SSL (HTTPS)
- How do I make the images on archive pages fill the full containing box?
- Is my theme compatible with External Images?
- Where can I edit the external image url and gallery URLs in the Gutenberg editor?
- How do external images appear to Google, Twitter, Facebook etc?
Troubleshooting
- Cloudflare is caching posts/products without images when imported using WP All Import
- How to fix weird image sizes
- Featured Image broken with the Houzez theme
- Long External Image URLs save but do not appear in Media and so do not have captions, alt text or title text
- I have a blank image at the end of my gallery, how do I fix this?
- When I rerun an import with updated image urls or image texts, the images or texts do not change
- Thumbnails not appearing on property detail or product detail page
Articles
Full site articles related to this plugin.
- Running huge imports with WP All Import reliably (yes, even if you use Cloudflare!)
- Speeding up WP All Import imports using Scalability Pro
- December Development Update
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- More beta updates available
- A-list third-party plugins to improve WordPress site speed
- Dev Diary #7
- Dev Diary #6
- Dev Diary #4
- Dev Diary #2
Completed Feature Requests
These feature requests have been added at the request of our users
- Add gallery option to variations
- Add OWL carousel compatibility
- Lightbox for Product Images
- Display thumbnails with Jetpack Photon
- Add automatic configuration for top themes
- Add hook control for archive thumbnail and product/post detail page featured image
- Check if HTTPS is possible for images, if so, replace HTTP with HTTPS for all of that site’s images
- Add visual interface to set external_image_url per variation
- Allow dynamic/parameterised images
- Multiple Image Field Choice
Approved Feature Requests
These feature requests have been approved and are under development. Get notified of completion by upvoting them. You can watch development of each feature request live by subscribing to their Trello cards.
Suggested Feature Requests
If you would like to see these feature requests, upvote them and provide any useful extra info detailing what you would like to see.
Bug Reports
- Main product image not getting served via jetpack CDN (Completed)
- External Images – Missing images and product data (Completed)
- Bug causing images and prices to not be imported on three of my sites (Completed)
- MyListing theme and External Images plugin (Declined)
- Some images are not displayed (Completed)
- Fatal error when loading category archive (Completed)
- External Image plugin issue with Gumlet plugin (Completed)
- external-images-2.33 beta (Completed)
- External image URL doesnt get saved during import (Completed)
- Yoast SEO preview not showing image (Declined)
- Advanced bulk edit thumbnail image (Completed)
- Image not displaying in admin area (Completed)
- Images aren’t loading in Woo Widgets (Completed)
- Commas in image URLs don’t work – need different separator than commas (Completed)