Chris Lagasse

Big Sea

Do you work with GIT repositories and develop WordPress websites locally? Have you found it time consuming and difficult to develop locally on a large WordPress website that has thousands of images? Does your development site get out of date within months due to active content management on the live site?
Activate this plugin on your local or development environment, and any linked images in the database content (wp-content/uploads folder) will be pulled from the live site URL.

Coral – Remote Images

Save space and download time!  Leave your uploaded images where they're at, in /wp-content, during development on your local.

Super Interactive

This simple yet highly effective plugin solves a very common annoyance when developing a WordPress website locally. Often, when running a WordPress application locally for development, you don’t have the entire uploads directory at hand. This causes every page load to trigger a large amount of 404 errors, each of which are routed to expensive WordPress requests.
Super Interactive Image Placeholders will automatically replace each request for an image with a random image from <a href="http://picsum.photos" rel="nofollow ugc">Lorem Picsum</a>, avoiding the 404 errors and speeding up local WordPress development enormously. As a nice side effect, it will also make your website look a lot nicer without all the missing images.

Super Interactive Image Placeholders

Display placeholder Lorem Picsum images to avoid chains of 404 requests caused by an incomplete uploads directory (while developing)

Coral – Remote Images vs Super Interactive Image Placeholders