Archivarix External Images Importer
Import external images in posts and pages from external sources or Web Archive if original sources are not available anymore.
5(9 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Archivarix External Images Importer is a WordPress media plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 27K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 46% this week. Top alternative: Safe SVG.
5/59 reviews
2.0K+active installs
27K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Archivarix External Images Importer scans your posts and pages for external URLs in src/srcset attributes of all img tags. Based on configured settings, the plugin can:
- Download images from their original external sources
- Download images from Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
- Try to download from original source first, then from Internet Archive if failed
- Try to download from Internet Archive first, then from original source if failed
- Restore missing local images (404) from Web Archive
You can choose what to do with images that could not be downloaded:
- Keep image unchanged
- Remove image from post completely
- Replace with 1×1 pixel placeholder
Key Features in Version 2.0
- Full compatibility with WordPress 6.9
- Modern AJAX interface with real-time progress
- Background processing ̵…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works with Gutenberg
by Kyle Charlton·3 years ago
Works great!
I imported several posts into a site running WordPress 5.9.3 with Gutenberg and the Archivarix External Images Importer plugin imported the external images without any issues. I’ve tested a few other image importer plugins but none of them had the ability to scan a site and import from existing content like this one does.
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by 邱榮彥·4 years ago
This is the best WP image capture plugin I have ever used! But I hope to add a feature to automatically check whether there is an external image every time an article is updated, and if there is one, it will automatically grab and replace it! Thank you!
Worked well for me
I created a site and bulk scraped articles with images from other sites. But my scraper could only scrape the page html, not import the image itself into wordpress.
So I used this plugin. The scraping software scraped the post and image in HTML format from the other sites and created new posts on my site. Then this plugin downloaded the image so it is hosted on my actual site and CDN, and renamed it according to my parameters.
Perfect!
Worked perfect, thank you!
by kkzm·4 years ago
Worked perfect, thank you!
don’t use this plugin
by dean34·5 years ago
this plugin is crap, 100% scam
i don’t recommend this for anybody
Download Trends
Today: 18Yesterday: 18This week: 136Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
69.5%
v2.0
30.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.3 (2026-03-09)
- Fixed local 404 detection when site uses mixed http/https URLs
- Fixed SVG placeholder filtering for lazy-load images
Contributors
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