Cache Images

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

4 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 76% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 16 months ago; the previous band took 3.2 years to cross, which places it about 58% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ synthezoid

   2.7y ago

   This plugin doesn’t update the ALT fields of the images from the alt tags, so, basically, it’s exactly the same as just bulk downloading the images from a remote site and bulk uploading them to your library. It does stick the local copies in the same places you had hotlinked them in your post, which is great (and is the reason I’m giving 2 stars instead of 1), unless, like me, it leaves you with 500 media files that you now need to update the alt fields individually by hand, making the whole exercise a waste of time.

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2. ★★★★★ franklinveaux

   2.9y ago

   When I tried to use this on my blog (which has been running since 2001, and has many thousands of entries), it failed miserably. For many years, I kept images on a different server I run, and linked to them from my blog. I finally decided to migrate all the images to my blog. Things seemed to go well at first, until the plugin hit a few hundred images, at which point my VPS crashed hard. The plugin seems only meant for tiny blogs with maybe a dozen images or so. There’s no rate limiting, no provision for heavy load, no way it can handle more than a small handful of images. Also, it wants to resize images, for some reason. If oyur goal is to end up with a blog exactly the same as it was before, but with the images local instead of remote, it should just…bring in the remote images, not resize them.

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3. ★★★★★ henriquebs12

   7.7y ago

   The one that really works without messing my HTML, and allowing automatic caching for future posts at the same time. The only thing that I’d like is the ability to change the cached file name (like caching with the post name or time included on name. And change base URL. Thanks! This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by henriquebs12.

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4. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   8.8y ago

   Despite some comments to the contrary, this plug-in works with WordPress 4.9.2. It is well-designed with a very helpful user interface. If you want to get rid of hot-linked images on your WordPress, this is a painless way to find them and automatically put the images on your own site and replace the link.

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5. ★★★★★ Aurovrata Venet

   13.1y ago

   Yes! Thank you for this little plugin that does exactly what it does properly. – Imports images from blogger – Rewrites hotlinks in post and updates database – Imports images in conventional WP folders (uploads/<year>/<month>) – Imports all hotlinks from any sites (so you can run this little tool every month to check on the image links in your blog For information on installtion, check this link.

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6. ★★★★★ Ken Davenport

   13.4y ago

   This plugin is a lifesaver. Migrated images from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site.

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All 2 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.2.2). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.4 Cache Images <= 3.2 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2022-06-20 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.1 Patched in 3.2.1
2. Patched High · 8.8 Cache Images <= 3.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Image Upload ↗
   2022-06-20 CVE-2022-2091 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 3.1 Patched in 3.2.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.1

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-06-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1156 days in tier
2. 2022-05-01 3K+ → 2K+ down after 453 days in tier
3. 2021-02-02 4K+ → 3K+ down after 459 days in tier
4. 2019-11-01 5K+ → 4K+ down after 638 days in tier
5. 2018-02-01 6K+ → 5K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Cache Images: 1K+ active installs, 4.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cache-images