Bill Erickson

CultivateWP

When spinning up a staging or local development environment, you might not need the full uploads directory, but you also don’t want to see broken images throughout the site.
This plugin lets you use the production server for missing media. Define the production URL using a wp-config.php constant BE_MEDIA_FROM_PRODUCTION_URL or filter be_media_from_production_url.
In all cases, if a local file exists, it will be used in preference to the remote file.

BE Media from Production

We are using the plugin from GitHub for quite some time. Now it will be even easier, great work!

Awesome!

Sites that heavily rely on media were painfully to maintain. Not only did I have to get the local database in sync on my development machine, but also the media to get a good picture of how the site will look after a new feature I added. With this plugin this becomes a breeze as I do not have to download all media to my local machine anymore. This saves time and diskspace. Thank you Bill for this awesome plugin.

Makes maintaining sites a breeze

Just a really great complement to localhost development, especially since pretty much every backup/export utility allows excluding certain directories, like wp-content/uploads

Many thanks!

So glad I found this

Incredibly useful plugin when doing local development work on sites with huge media libraries, when you don't want to fill up your local hard drive with or spend time syncing with your remote site.

Very useful, works perfectly

For developers - Uses local media when available, and uses the production server for the rest.

cliffandy39

If you are a developer and want your customers to install plugins from your site without downloading and uploading them manually – just install our plugin and provide the URL. If you are a website administrator and you buy third-party plugins from developers – you can use our plugin for quick and easy installation. Just ask the developer for a link and past it into URL field.
Install Plugin From URL 
You can easily let your customers install all your plugins right from their website administrator area. When a user goes into his/her backend and click on the “Install from Web” tab, your extension can be found and the “Install” button appears, so the user can just click to install your extension.
Legal Notice 
Plugin Installer from public URL is great for many reasons: it makes it easier for users to find and install extensions outside WordPress, and it helps support the development of a vibrant and healthy commercial and non-commercial development community around WordPress. However, it may also be unintentionally undermining our support of the GPL by including extensions and other applications that run counter to it. So it’s yours responsibility to make sure the plugin you would like to install does not break any WP rules and does not contain backdoors, viruses, or malware.
Main Features
<ul>
<li>Install from any URL</li>
<li>No coding required</li>
<li>One-click installation</li>
<li>Create your own repository for your customers</li>
<li>No need to download and upload archive</li>
</ul>
PLEASE NOTE: To avoid any security issues with your website, make sure that you install 3rd party plugins from trusted resources only. Don’t install nulled plugins, plugins from “free stuff” websites and from any other illegal site or sites with illegal activity.

Plugin Installer from public URL

Plugin allows you to install any plugin from a URL. All you need to do is to insert a specific URL and click the Install button.

BE Media from Production vs Plugin Installer from public URL