Holy server resources and bandwidth suckage Batman! Seriously- hot-linking to your images and media files from search engines and other sites can be a good thing- but also a very bad thing, depending on what it is that being hot-linked and whether or not you want there to be external linking to your file(s).
In the best case scenario, it drives traffic to your site and helps advertise for you, freely. In the worst case scenario you piss off your webhost and in turn have outages.
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As you can see, I’ve been trying to push out some of these plugins that have been on my plate for a while. The Media Burner one is now officially in beta.
Media burner automatically extracts media files (MP3, FLV, YouTube, etc) from your blog posts and creates a site-wide player.
Head on over to the downloadables page for more information or if you want to download it.
The standard WordPress plugin database just fell over, so I have no way to tell the world about this. So if you check the plugin out and like it, please forward the link around or do a blog post about it.
Head on over to the Media Burner Plugin page for more information on installation and use.
