Using media on another server, for one or more WordPress sites      rev 30 march 2010
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  Basically, i would do like this: make a subdomain, calling it maybe
  media.mydomain.com, and upload the images i want to use there,
  even putting them in nice folders for organisation (which we can't
  do with the WordPress upload!). Then when i make a page or post,
  just hand-code the img src url to the location of the image -- like:
  <img src="http://media.mydomain.com/photos/this_and_that.jpg" />

  Of course, now the downside is, you lose the great features of adding
  through Media Library, like it writes the code for you, saving
  image info and captions, generating different sizes of the image ...
  This can be gotten around through writing some shortcodes, functions, etc.
  but that's still not nice for normal people.

  Plugins?  I did a quick search for    images external
  at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/  and in google,
  and didn't come up with anything useful in the first couple pages.
  Damn! It must exist. I will find it.


  http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/07/12/optimizing-wordpress-settings/
  It says for uploading to the Media Library, where you specify in the
  Settings page where you want to upload,
  (Scroll down to "Image Upload Location and URL", and see the little image there)
  you can upload into a folder that is actually a folder for a subdomain, and then
  set the url for the images to come from the subdomain.
  So that could be your "common image pool" for all the MUs ...
  if all the MUs are on the same domain?
  Then you wouldn't have to hard-code the path to images in all the posts,
  it would work like normal.

  I think i am understanding this right ... i need to try it ...


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