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.
- 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
- External Images 1.97 released
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)
Customer Q & A
- I\'m having a problem
- Performance question
- Adding Alt Text To External Images
- Adding Alt Text To External Images
- Wp All Import
- Unable to upload images to product image gallery
- External Storage – best storage option?
- External Images doesnt work with Affiliate Coupons plugin
- I can't get scalability pro to work for wpallimport
- External Images – support for image optimization plugins
- All Import with your plugin
- Performance of your plugin
- WP all import – Variable Product
- How do I fix gallery images on product detail pages?
- Pre-Sale Question – Image from External Product Page
- External Images plugin
- Variations disappear when updating a product
- Empty and unattached media
- External image license
- External Images Plugin Not showing images
- How do i upload images to a CDN?
- WP Residence Real Estate theme compatibility
- external images – getting a critical error report from wordpress
- When will External Images support multiple Images?
- External Images & WP All Import
- External Images plugin not working with Houzez Theme
- Real Homes Theme
- Pre-Sales Question
- featured product image and gallery images custom field name
- how to set featured image and variation image separately
- Info Service
- External Images Plugin
- External Images Plugin
- images are not being shown
- External Images DB update required
- Can't seem to get a reply from WP Instense!
- Real Estate Listings Theme – external_image_url imports images however does not display on property listings
- External Variation Images & WP All Import
- External Images and Dropbox
- using external images to display images in a folder
- External image – WpAllImport multiple pic in one field
- External Images Plugin Lightbox Image Dimensions
- Can I use this plugin with the REST API?
- Support for Product/Review CSV Import Export WebToffee
- External Images – Fallback image
- Can images be added and updated via the Woo Commerce REST API?
- External Images – S3 vs CDN
- Pre-Sale Question – Image from External Product Page
- Will external images update if the image changes on the other website?
- WooCommerce Variations External Images
- Does External Images support AMP?
- CSS Issues with External Images
- WordPress External Images + wp all import
- How do I import gallery images using WP All Import?
- Issues with New Versions of Woocommerce
- HTTPS problem external images
- Images Are coming through blurry on WooCommerce
- Captions and credits on images
- Multiple images via WP All Import
- images are not being shown
- WooCommerce Variations External Images
- WordPress External Images + wp all import
- Multiple Images
- External WordPress Images plugin issue + Total theme
- External WordPress Images size
- External WordPress Images plugin
- Missing pictures with SSL
- Missing pictures with SSL
- Amazon S3
- External WordPress Images plugin issue
- External Images Plugin not displaying HTTP images
- Optimising Images
- External WordPress Images plugin issue
- Deleting Product Sets
- Example Website Please