Gatsby: [gatsby-source-wordpress] Prevent media from downloading
Hello,
Is it possible to stop the plugin from downloading media? For a website with a ton of photos, including the images would just bloat up the public folder.
geeknabe
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@geeknabe yes it is. In your gatsby-config.js you can omit the "**/media" route and all of the images will be sourced directly from the wordpress instance. But don't forget that as all of the images in the pages or posts will be sourced directly from the wordpress installation, they are not available and need to be downloaded when the page is shown/rendered. That's why the route mentioned above in conjunction with the plugin is a better way, so that you have all of the images at build time and you can transform them as needed.
Feel free to provide feedback so that we can close this issue or continue to work on it till we find a suitable solution for your issue.
jonniebigodes
on 9 Jul 2019
Alright, thanks for the info!
geeknabe
on 10 Jul 2019
Still on this issue, sometimes you will want to use a media url but i I omit the "media" route I can't access, for example, the "featured_media" property in a post node. Is there a way I could get only the URL but not download the media?
brisa-pedronetto
on 21 Feb 2020
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Still on this issue, sometimes you will want to use a media url but i I omit the "media" route I can't access, for example, the "featured_media" property in a post node. Is there a way I could get only the URL but not download the media?