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Offloading your media files is a well-known tactic for speeding up your WordPress sites, but WP Offload Media can also greatly reduce the time it takes to replicate a new environment on a staging or development site, as well as the disk space needed to do so.
There’s more than one way to do this, and there is no canonical “best way.” In this article, we’ll look at some of the different strategies you can use, and outline their pros and cons.
The Long Way Around