cf2c1d7dbe97470da7b7bb1f810b38e2Q: Hello Gregory, Love what I see but I need to be able to host my own images within WordPress.
Please make this an option that can easily be toggled.
I see you mentioned some code implementation to make this work but many of us don't want to, or don't feel comfortable doing those kind of technical changes.
Thank you.
valeri
May 14, 2024A: Hi there
You've probably seen this reply already, let's recap.
Our WordPress (or any other plugin from us) has hooks available for you to tweak how much you want.
You could use our hooks to side-load all the images. It's always custom made and different for each WP installation.
Unfortunately, we can not custom develop that ourselves for each client. It's up to them to hire a developer for this.
The images are hosted by us. In that way we can ensure your content will work on Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP and other channels we support. In other words, this is the only way to make our tool easy-to-use so you can go multi-channel with articles without technical installations. So it's in your benefit!
If we disable that, AMP channels won't work properly, Medium.com won't work properly, Email marketing won't work properly, Ambassadors channels won't work properly.
If you discontinue to work with Story Chief, your images will still be available or you can choose to download them from our servers and move it to yours. So don't worry about that.
We've seen this request a few times here, mostly from folks who do affiliate stuff. Not from Content Marketers.
We've put that in our ProductBoard Roadmap anyways.
Understood. Thank you for taking the time to reply.