Smart Image Importer

Smart Image Importer automatically fetches and saves all external image URLs used in your posts and pages, including those added via popular page builders like Elementor and WPBakery. This helps improve SEO, loading speed, and keeps your content future-proof by hosting all images locally.

Automatically import and replace external image URLs with local copies.

Smart Image Importer helps you speed up your site, improve SEO, and gain full control over your post and page images by downloading third-party/external images into your WordPress Media Library.

🔹 Key Features

• Automatically detects and downloads external images in post/page content and metadata
• Compatible with most editors including Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery
• Replaces image URLs with local WordPress-hosted URLs
• Manual bulk fix option (no automatic run on activation)
• AJAX-based processing for smoother performance
• Helps with SEO and performance by eliminating hotlinked images

🔹 Perfect For:

• Blog owners using copied content with external images
• SEOs optimizing for image indexing and page speed
• Anyone wanting full control over image hosting

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/smart-image-importer directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Go to Tools > Smart Image Importer to manually run the image import process.

1.0

• Initial release
• Supports posts and pages
• AJAX-based manual importer
• Elementor and Gutenberg compatible