i want to get a post embedded images but the only methods i see over the internet are

        $attachments = get_posts(array(
            'post_parent'       => get_the_ID(),
            'post_type'         => 'attachment',
            'posts_per_page'    => $n,
            'post_mime_type' => 'image'
        ));


        $attachments = get_children(array(
            'post_parent'       => get_the_ID(),
            'post_type'         => 'attachment',
            'posts_per_page'    => $n,
            'post_mime_type' => 'image'
        ));

        $attachments = get_attached_media('image', get_the_ID());

but this gives only the attached images i want all the images in a post even if they are not attached to that post 'post_parent' => get_the_ID()

i think this is the wordpress way of attaching images it sounds like a one-to-many relationship an image can only be attached to one post

any idea ? thanks in advance

i want to get a post embedded images but the only methods i see over the internet are

        $attachments = get_posts(array(
            'post_parent'       => get_the_ID(),
            'post_type'         => 'attachment',
            'posts_per_page'    => $n,
            'post_mime_type' => 'image'
        ));


        $attachments = get_children(array(
            'post_parent'       => get_the_ID(),
            'post_type'         => 'attachment',
            'posts_per_page'    => $n,
            'post_mime_type' => 'image'
        ));

        $attachments = get_attached_media('image', get_the_ID());

but this gives only the attached images i want all the images in a post even if they are not attached to that post 'post_parent' => get_the_ID()

i think this is the wordpress way of attaching images it sounds like a one-to-many relationship an image can only be attached to one post

any idea ? thanks in advance

• attachments

• If you mean all embedded images from post content, maybe you can try a regex in post content to search all images. Also you should look for all post meta in a same way. But if any post meta has attachment ID instead of URL, it can be quite impossible unless you explicitly know which meta key contains an attachment ID. – Sohan Zaman Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 17:55

2 Answers 2

i think if WordPress doesn't provide such a function then this is the shortest way

function my_get_embeded_media() {
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', get_the_content());

    $arr = preg_match_all("/<img[^>]* src=\"([^\"]*)\"[^>]*>/", $content, $matches);

    return $arr ? $matches[1] : array();
}

but we still can't control the images size!

You can use DOMDocument to get every image from any page:

function testingdom(){

    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
    
    $dom->loadHTMLFile('https://the_post_url/anyone');
    $data = $dom->getElementsByTagName("img");
    
    $srcs = array();
    foreach($data as $key => $dat){
        $srcs[] =  $data->item($key)->getAttribute("src");
    }
    
    $dom = null;

}
add_action("wp_head", "testingdom");

This way you should have every src in an array called srcs