The WP poster inside SCM will now automatically upload all images inside a post to your WP blog.
Previously it would only upload the featured image and leave the other images alone.
The image detection and upload works for these type of image sources in your post.
- Hotlinked URL images
- Base64 encoded images
- Images on your hard drive
Image insert default
The default image insert for the article creator is also now, ‘cache’
The old ‘hotlink’ option has been removed.
Article creator will no longer insert hotlinked images from image search.
All images are downloaded to your hard drive.
This allows SCM to remove image search results that point to dead images.
Having images cached means there is always a copy of the image.
When uploading your article, it will used this cached image and upload it to your Wordpress blog.
Base64 images deprecated
The article creator no longer inserts images using base64 data
There was a couple problems with that method
- Default Wordpress installs don’t allow image src data and uploaded posts don’t display images
- Image name was always random ID, it didn’t use SEO friendly image names
Instead all images to be uploaded are stored on your hard drive, and uploaded into the Wordpress blog as media attachments with proper SEO image names.
Summary
This should make the WP upload poster work a lot better on default WP installs
It also removes the confusion around seeing embedded base64 images in post html source
This also means you no longer have to worry about hotlinked images, as they are always downloaded and reuploaded to your blog.