If you are looking for a way to speed up writing posts then Insights may be the answer. It quickly finds and inserts links, photos, videos and maps in to posts and pages.
The great thing about this plugin is that all the searches are done without leaving the editor page. What’s more the search results are very fast (unlike WordPress’s Create/Edit Link button) meaning that its now easy to add internal and external links to your posts.
Searches and creates links to:
- Posts in your blog
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Wikipedia
- Google.com
- Google News
- Google Blog Search
- Google Books
- Google Maps
User level: All
Frontend/Backend: Backend
Settings: Settings > Insights
Notes: Adds a search box to the post editor
Cost: Free
Install within WordPress? Yes
Last update: September 2, 2010
Pros:
- Fast way to link to other posts on your blog
- Works with 2.9.2 and 3.0 beta
Cons:
- It would be great if more search types could be added including custom searches
- Image searches limited to Flickr
- No international support at present i.e. all searches are in English
More about this plugin
Images are inserted as links i.e. they are not downloaded and cannot be edited in WordPress. To do this you can use a plugin called Add Linked Images to Gallery which simply downloads external images when you save a post. See my video on Insights.