Bunny CDN vs External Images Plugin
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Get External Images →Comparing Bunny CDN with External Images? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of Bunny CDN
Bunny CDN is a content delivery network that distributes your static assets — images, CSS, JavaScript, and video — across a global network of edge servers. For WordPress, it is typically integrated via a plugin that rewrites asset URLs to point to the CDN. It offers competitive pricing and a strong global network.
How External Images differs from Bunny CDN
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and External Images is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Store your images anywhere – a CDN, Amazon S3, a Digital Ocean space or your affiliate feed – and serve them straight through WordPress. Nothing gets downloaded to your server, so imports run faster and your disk stops filling up. Works with any post type and every WooCommerce product type, including variations and galleries.
Rated 4.65 out of 5 across 26 reviews.
- Import products without WordPress downloading or resizing a single image
- Scale to millions of products on low-cost hosting, with no image storage to worry about
- Works with WP All Import, Datafeedr and any tool that can set a custom field
- Cut disk usage and the CPU normally spent generating 20+ thumbnail sizes per image
Bunny CDN delivers your existing media files faster by serving them from edge nodes closer to your visitors — but your images are still stored and managed in your WordPress media library, consuming server disk space. External Images stores all image references as external URLs without downloading or hosting the files on your server at all, eliminating disk usage and media library bloat while keeping WooCommerce product images accessible.
How to choose between Bunny CDN and External Images?
Bunny CDN is an excellent choice for accelerating asset delivery, but if disk space, media library size, or the overhead of hosting thousands of product images on your own server is the underlying problem, External Images solves it at the source. SQL-first architecture, tested against one-million-product catalogues, with a free trial available.
What do others say about External Images?
Since HTTPS became standart I was having trouble compiling with https rules on my woocommerce site, since my images are hosted on a non-https server. With External images my non-https images become https via proxy on my server. Altough it did not work immediately as I install it due to a problem on my word press theme, great support from Dave and his team kicked in and solved the problem on the theme. Great Plugin, Great Team, Great Support… Many thanks!
Some time ago I bought this plugin and it always worked smoothly. Recently there were some WordPress updates and my website broke (probably because of the Gutenberg editor addition). I contacted the support/developer (Dave) and in few days my problem was completely solved! The plugin is now even better than before and I'm sure it will keep improving. To sum up, I definitely recommend this External Images plugin, by far the best in the market!
I was looking to make my wordpress site faster. I ended buying/using scalability pro. Excellent product, amazing performance for my site. After importing thousands of products my server lagged due to the enormous amount of images that i imported. External images to the rescue!!!! With the external images i keep my server clean and my site super fast!!! No more unnecessary thumbnails. By the way support from Dave is first class!! Top notch developer!! Top notch support! Highly recommended plugin!!! AAA Thanks Dave for the awesome plugins and support!!!!
External Images Knowledge Base
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View all articles →- December Development Update
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- More beta updates available
- Dev Diary #7
- Dev Diary #6
- Dev Diary #4
- Dev Diary #2
- External Images 1.97 released
- External Images upgrade released – gallery support added
- External Images upgrade released
What's new in External Images?
3.35 (26th May 2026)
- Added new postmeta filter to add front-end gallery compatibility to latest Houzez theme – they no longer use metabox for their metadata
3.34 (20th May 2026)
- Updated the Super Speedy Settings page: added a "Recheck Licenses" button above the licence table so customers have a clear way to refresh licence status after a renewal or upgrade without scrolling down to the licence-key field. The button is disabled until a licence key is entered/saved and re-enables as you type.
- The Recheck flow now also force-bypasses the auth-server's own 1-hour licence cache (via a `force=1` flag on the `wpiapi/check_product_key` call), so renewals/upgrades that completed less than an hour before a recheck no longer show as expired/exceeded. Normal admin page loads continue to use both caches as before — only an explicit Recheck click bypasses them. (Lives in the `super-speedy-settings` submodule, so the change propagates to every Super Speedy plugin.)
3.33 (18th November 2025)
- Added full namespacing for plugin update checker to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins
3.32 (27th May 2025)
- Removed code for checking for and deleting orphans – this can be handled through a KB article instead as it's a one-off job to clean up data
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