How Crossposting Plugins Work with Images
In this guide, you will find detailed information on how both of my crossposting plugins handle images in your posts (or products, if you’re using WooCommerce).
Featured Images
Each post has a single featured image which can be set with the help of this meta box:
Or with this panel if you’re using the Block Editor (Gutenberg)
Featured Images are going to be copied to target sites in both crossposting plugins.
However, if you’re using a multisite version of the plugin, you don’t always need featured images to be copied to subsites. In that case, read this guide.
Product Images and Product Gallery (WooCommerce)
Both product images and product gallery images are going to be copied to target stores in both crossposting plugins.
Images in Post Content
As long as the post content only holds image URLs, the plugin does nothing with them. Indeed, there is no need to duplicate every image from the article (there could be hundreds of them) as long as we can use their original URLs.
The concept of using original image URLs allows us to significantly win in performance.
It means that for the multisite version of the plugin, the idea of copying images in the post content to target subsites is out of the question.
As for the not-multisite version of the plugin, there could be specific cases when we have to copy images to the target sites. For example, when a sending site is now available for the public, maybe it is even located on the localhost.
First of all, maybe for your case, it will be enough just to copy the attached images, then you need to go to Settings > Crosspost > Fields and activate this option:
If that’s not what you need or you just have no idea what the attached images are, then you can make use of the following add-on below:
Download Simple WP Crossposting – Images in Post Content 1.0
This add-on was created by your requests and is fully experimental, which means that it is not included in the plugin support.
Images in Custom Fields
It doesn’t matter which one of the custom field plugins you’re using – ACF, Metabox.io, JetEngine, etc – in any case, attachments are stored in custom fields as their IDs. It means that we need to copy them to target sites in order for them to be displayed correctly.
The same applies to images in ACF blocks.
Please check this guide to find out how to copy them to subsites.
Images in Posts Created with Builder Plugins (Elementor, etc)
Each builder plugin has its own rules when it comes to how it processes images in the post content.
However, below you can find a list of the most popular ones and how the images are going to be processed:
| Plugin name | How to correctly copy images |
|---|---|
| Elementor | For better image support, it is recommended to install the add-on for Elementor (please use this link if you need a multisite version). |
| Bricks Builder | Images added with the help of the following elements: “Image”, “Gallery”, “Carousel”, “Logo” and also background images can be copied with the help of this add-on. |
| Avada Builder | The standard rules for content images apply. |
| Divi Builder | The standard rules for content images apply. |
| WPBakery Page Builder | Images can be copied to target sites with the help of this add-on. |