Do you want to bring all of your
external images into WordPress? Well
keep watching, in this video I'll walk
you through how you can import all of
the external images into your WordPress
website. This is especially important if
you've recently moved from a different
platform say like from Blogger, WordPress.com,
Weebly, or Joomla so if you're ready
let's get started.
By default all of the images should come
over into your media library area
and you should see them right here. Now to
get started with importing all external
images let's head over to our plugins
area, add new, we need to install a plugin.
The plugin that we're looking for is
called auto upload images. This is the
one we want so let's click install now.
Once it's installed you want to make
sure you activate it as well. Great, now
that it's activated we can go to our
settings area, auto upload images to set
it up. These are all the default settings
and it should work for most cases but
you can change them here if you need to
but what you want to do is scroll all
the way down and click Save Changes
and that will store the settings. The next
thing we need to do is update all the
posts and pages that have the images
that we need to update. This is a manual
process but I'll show you how you can
make it a little bit faster. So first
we'll go to posts, all posts, and if you
have several posts you can do something
real quick to get them all on one page.
What you can do is go up here to screen
options and under the number of items
per page you can set this to 999
and click apply and now it should show as
many as 999 posts on this page so you
can do all of this at once.
Now that we have all of our posts on one
page you can click on this check box
here and it will select all of the posts.
Under bulk actions we need to click Edit. Now
let's apply this and WordPress will show
us all the things that we can change. We
don't want to change anything all we
want to do is click update and
what this does is the process triggers
the plugin to check all of the posts and
make sure that any images that are
external will be imported into our media
library and be updated for us and since
it's going out in updating all the posts
it could take a little while so just be
patient and as you see we have 72 posts
that were updated. Now if you have more
than 999 posts, if you haven't more than
999 posts then you'll just want to
scroll all the way down at the bottom
and there will be a next or an arrow tab
down here to click on the next page full
of post and do the same process. Now all
of your images should be in your media
library and are being hosted on your
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