Philip Newcomer

When developing locally, it’s common to use a database dump from a production site. With large sites, it’s also common that the production site’s image uploads cannot be easily copied to the local environment, because there are simply too many of them.
While local environments like <a href="https://github.com/Pilothouse-App/pilothouse" rel="nofollow ugc">Pilothouse</a> allow you to easily proxy image uploads to your local environment from the production site, that doesn’t work so well if you add or change one of the registered thumbnail sizes in your local copy of the theme, since the new thumbnail size can’t be proxied from production as it doesn’t exist there. You’re also not able to regenerate the needed thumbnail sizes locally, because the original image file is not present locally.
CDN Image Proxy solves this problem by using <a href="https://jetpack.com/support/photon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack Image CDN</a> (formerly Photon) to proxy image uploads from your production site. Jetpack Image CDN will automatically generate and serve any required thumbnail size on-the-fly, but CDN Image Proxy will tell it to look for the original image on your production server, rather than on your local URL.
The result is that you can add or change registered image sizes locally whenever you want, and Jetpack Image CDN will generate and provide a CDN URL for whatever thumbnail size is required, sourced from the original image file located on the production site.

CDN Image Proxy

Use Jetpack Image CDN (formerly Photon) to proxy image uploads from another site.

Robert Trevellyan

Please note: this plugin is no longer required with Jetpack version 3.9 and later.
By default, with Jetpack version 3.8.2 and earlier, the Jetpack Photon and Jetpack Tiled Galleries modules do not use the wordpress.com CDN on a site that uses HTTPS. The Accept HTTPS with Jetpack Photon and Tiled Galleries plugin allows those modules to use the wordpress.com CDN by means of a single line of PHP: 
 add_filter( ‘jetpack_photon_reject_https’, ‘__return_false’ );

Accept HTTPS with Jetpack Photon and Tiled Galleries

We were adding the same line of code to several client sites that we had converted to HTTPS. It seemed like a good opportunity to make a small contribution by releasing our first plugin. Please let us know if you find it useful.



our first plugin - hope you find it useful

Enable use of the wordpress.com content delivery network by the Jetpack Photon and Tiled Galleries modules on a site that uses HTTPS.

CDN Image Proxy vs Accept HTTPS with Jetpack Photon and Tiled Galleries