Archive Remote Images allows you to scan a post to fetch remote images; then updates its content automatically.

A new metabox will appear when editing a post.
If "Archive Remote Images" is checked, the plugin will grab all remote images and update the content when saving that post.

• Settings page with lot of options (see screenshot #2)
• Several hooks allow advanced users to change the plugin's behaviour.

Contributors

Contributors are listed here

Notes

For feature request and bug reports, please use the forums.

If you are a plugin developer, we would like to hear from you. Any contribution would be very welcome.

Q: Will it archive the images which are already hosted on my blog ? A: No, only the external images.

Q: Is there hooks I can use to customize the plugin's behaviour ? A: Yes, there is several hooks you can use. Search in the code for "apply_filters" and "do_action". This is for advanced users !

1.0.7

• Deep clean html content on post load (by Kraoc)
• Add normalize on document save (by Kraoc)

1.0.6

• Add default encoding when loading DOM (by Kraoc)
• removed doctype / html / body from document (only since PHP 5.4). (by Kraoc)

1.0.5

• added function is_local_server() to avoid error in get_domain() when used on localhost.

1.0.4

• Lot of new options in the settings page.
• Localization.
• Also handles the link wrapped around an image, if the link target is pointing to the image file.
• Refactoring of the settings page (uses now WordPress functions).
• Saves image title if a "title" or "alt" attribute is set on the remote image
• Fixed bug with revisions
• Avoid uploading several times the same image (checking its source, which is saved as "_ari-url" post meta)
• Whole image tag replacement, not only source url replacement. Can be filtered with hook 'ari_get_new_image_html'.
• Changed regex stuff with DOM parser (more reliable)
• Replaced SQL queries with WP core functions
• Wrapped plugin into a class

1.0.3

• Update: The read me content
• Bug fix : Fix the default value and auto save option

1. Upload the plugin to your blog and Activate it.
2. Setup the plugin in the Settings menu -> Archive Remote Images.
3. Edit a post with remote images, and check "Archive Remote Images".