Develop Locally, Use Images from Production! If you are a WordPress Developer, you might need this plugin which rewrite your local image url by your p …
As of April 2026, Rewrite Image URL is a WordPress comments plugin with 80 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
Develop Locally, Use Images from Production
If you are a WordPress Developer, you might need this plugin which rewrite your local image url by your production website.
You might not even want to deal with images. Perhaps:
You don’t want the images in your repo. Maybe the repo is just a theme folder and it makes sense to leave it that way.
You have like 10 GB worth of images and it’s impractical and unnecessary to move them around.
In order to rewrite your local image, You need to add your hostname to the place below:
Settings > Rewrite Img URL
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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