Wordpress LScache Plugin: Do external images also get cached and served as a local copy?
Last Updated on: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:02 Our site mainly runs on external images located on another domain. This domain is quite slow and images take very long to load. http://external.com/image1.jpg If I open the homepage, and about 50 images get loaded from the external domain, and I then refresh the page, would those images be served from cache as local images or would they still be fetched from the external source? hmmmmm , i think it should be fetch from your local browser cache first , if not ,and then from external source. I agree with the local browser cache, but this just means that every visitor would still load those images from the remote server for the very first time, so each visitor would be met with a slow loading site, instead of from the local LightSpeed server. I wonder if this scenario is possible: -Visitor A opens the homepage and loads the 50 remote images. -Those 50 remote images are then locally cached -Visitor B opens the homepage and loads the 50 images, but this time from the local cache. So it is af if the images were local stored images. So Visitor A would load http://external.com/image1.jpg and then Visitor B would see that same image but this time it is http://localcached.com/image1.jpg Something like this. well , I guess you will need to have a custom solution for that because obviously neither WP or LSCWP were designed that way. a little suggestion as workaround. how about set up a CDN for the domain where you load images from ? Its worth mentioning that LSCache doesnt cache images. LSCache is for dynamic content (the full HTML pages that are generated by WP), not static content such as images, CSS, Javascript, etc. Like qtwrk said, a CDN is probably your best bet for what you want to do.
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