Best remote images plugins for WordPress
The most popular remote images plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. External Image Importer leads with 80+ active installs, ahead of Bring Images Home (10+) and LH Cache Remote Images (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “Remote images” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 remote images plugins
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External Image ImporterThe most installed remote images plugin, with 80+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Bring Images Home10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
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LH Cache Remote Images10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “Remote images”
External Image Importer
Up in the last 7 days:10#18,081by NerdCow1 month ago
Automatically import external and remote images into your Media Library on save and rewrite the URLs to local copies. Built SSRF-safe.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bring Images Home
Down in the last 7 days:1,313#29,090by CodeRevolution4 months ago
Automatically copies remote images from post content into the WordPress Media Library and replaces external URLs with local attachment URLs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
LH Cache Remote Images
Down in the last 7 days:1,395#45,936by shawfactor3 months ago
LH Cache Remote Images allows you to scan a post to fetch remote images; then updates its content automatically.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day