You can use the the_content
filter to access the contents of the post before it is printed to the screen. The function that you use to filter it can either go two routes – using regex to parse the contents (not the “right” way but faster/dirtier) or an HTML parser. You should then be able to get to the src
attribute and replace the <img/>
.
function my_content_filter( $post_content ){
// parse and modify the <imgs> in $post_content here
return $post_content;
}
add_filter( 'the_content', 'my_content_filter' );
Keep in mind that if you go this route, the modified content’s won’t actually be stored in the database, so if something accesses $post->post_content
without calling apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content )
then your links won’t be included. This will also put a relatively high load on your server to parse/modify the contents on every request, especially without a caching plugin in place. Programmatically accessing and updating the saved values might be a better choice if you want the updates to be ubiquitous.