: Image hotlinking providers? I use a lot of images in my wordpress and due to hosting restrictions I need to host the images somewhere else and hotlink them in my blog posts. So I am looking

@Angie530

Plenty of people run their blog images off of Flickr, including slideshows. There are a couple of minor requirements, like the images linking back to Flickr, but if you want someone else to handle your media, especially if you're asking for free, you have to make some concessions. (In my experience, this isn't even always done and you'd probably have to be a major offender or reported to even get noticed.)

I've got a client with hundreds of galleries that we host there(Flickr Pro is /yr, which you're probably paying more for in hosting already). We required more control over the output(to use a custom Javascript gallery locally), so I used phpFlickr to get the data into our templates. In this instance, we're able to move the backlink to a dedicated button rather than the image itself.

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@Cofer257

You will be hard pushed to find a site that does all that for free. However, imgur.com allows dead simple free image hosting with no discernible limits. There is a feature to group images into albums, but that is mainly for display on imgur itself and not your own organisation.

Your other alternative is a CDN solution like Amazon S3/Cloudfront. Unless your site is very popular (thousands of visitors a day) then it will be very cheap.

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