And would you name the code of page to be automatically updated to point to the image in Media Library than the not internal link to Flickr or other site..
Or maybe you're moving old static HTML to WordPress and you don't want to have to download and upload image and modify the image code in WordPress to reflect the changes..
Later in future you shift the article on the site and delete one of the images forgetting that you're using that image on WP site.
This plugin waves wand and turns images that are hosted elsewhere name in Flickr or on website into images that are in Media Library.
The code on your page is automatically updated so that page now uses the version of the subject that are in Media Library instead.
Another option allows Image Teleporter to be used to not internal subject or only to these Flickr...
The plugin examines HTML of your post when you save it inspecting IMG tag and processing them according to the application you have selected..
Under the default settings it will find IMG tags with links to images on web sites and pirate these images to site updating the IMG src to point to your copy...
I publish my own pictures to which I have all rights to Flickr and then my plugin dollars the file from Flickr's to my own web server..
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