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Media from Production

BE Media from Production is a WordPress plugin by Bill Erickson that helps when your local or staging environment does not contain the full uploads directory.

If an image or other media file exists locally, WordPress serves the local file as usual. If the file is missing locally, the plugin falls back to a configured production/staging URL, so you avoid broken media while developing.

This is useful for wp-lemon projects where copying all production media to every environment would take up a lot of disk space.

Install​

Run the following commands:

wp plugin install https://github.com/billerickson/be-media-from-production/releases/latest/download/be-media-from-production.zip --force --activate
wp dotenv set BE_MEDIA_FROM_PRODUCTION_URL https://staging.example.com # replace with your actual source environment URL

How It Works​

  • Existing local media is always preferred.
  • Missing local media is loaded from BE_MEDIA_FROM_PRODUCTION_URL.
  • No manual content updates are needed in posts and blocks.

Notes​

  • Use an environment URL that has public access to your uploads.
  • Keep this value environment-specific in your .env setup.
  • Replace https://staging.example.com with your actual source environment URL.