diff --git a/admin/admin.php b/admin/admin.php
index 78f6e9b..38d186d 100644
--- a/admin/admin.php
+++ b/admin/admin.php
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ function superdesk_admin() {
         'slugline-separator' => $_POST['slugline-separator'],
         'slugline-ignored' => $_POST['slugline-ignored'],
         'priority_threshhold' => $_POST['priority_threshhold'],
+        'download-images' => $_POST['download-images'],
     );
     update_option('superdesk_settings', $settings);
   } else if (get_option('superdesk_settings')) {
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ function superdesk_admin() {
         'slugline-separator' => '',
         'slugline-ignored' => '',
         'priority_threshhold' => '',
+        'download-images' => '',
     );
   }
   $statuses = array(
@@ -464,6 +466,30 @@ function superdesk_admin() {
               </select>
             </td>
           </tr>
+          <tr>
+            <th scope="row">
+               Download images from SD
+            </th>
+            <td>
+              <fieldset>
+                <label for="download-images-off">
+                  <input type="radio" name="download-images" id="download-images-off" value="off"<?php
+                  if ($settings['download-images'] == 'off') {
+                    echo(' checked');
+                  }
+                  ?>> off
+                </label>
+                <br>
+                <label for="download-images-on">
+                  <input type="radio" name="download-images" id="download-images-on" value="on"<?php
+                  if ($settings['download-images'] == 'on') {
+                    echo(' checked');
+                  }
+                  ?>> on
+                </label>
+              </fieldset>
+            </td>
+          </tr>
         </tbody>
       </table>
       <p class="submit">
diff --git a/autoload.php b/autoload.php
index a1d3154..7450ab1 100644
--- a/autoload.php
+++ b/autoload.php
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ if ($obj['type'] == 'text') {
       $author_id = 0;
     }
 
+    if ($settings['download-images'] && $settings['download-images'] == 'on') {
+      $content = embed_images($content);
+    }
+
     $sync = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT post_id FROM " . $wpdb->prefix . DB_TABLE_SYNC_POST . " WHERE guid = '" . $guid . "'");
 
     if ($sync) {
diff --git a/superdeskPublisher.php b/superdeskPublisher.php
index 84f9d41..ae429c7 100644
--- a/superdeskPublisher.php
+++ b/superdeskPublisher.php
@@ -148,6 +148,53 @@ function generate_caption_image($media) {
   return $caption;
 }
 
+function embed_src($src) {
+  $filename = sha1($src);
+  
+  saveFile($src, wp_upload_dir()['path'] . "/" . $filename);
+  return wp_upload_dir()['url'] . "/" . $filename;
+}
+
+function embed_images($html) {
+  $result = array();
+  preg_match_all('/<img[^>]+>/i', $html, $result);
+  if (count($result) > 0) {
+    $img = array();
+    foreach ($result as $row) {
+      if (count($row) > 0) {
+        foreach ($row as $img_tag) {
+          preg_match_all('/(src|title|alt)=("[^"]*")/i', $img_tag, $img[$img_tag]);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (count($img) > 0) {
+      foreach ($img as $htmlTag => $src) {
+        $attrs = array();
+        if (isset($src[1], $src[2])) {
+          foreach ($src[1] as $key => $attr) {
+            $value = $src[2][$key];
+            if ($attr === "src") {
+              $value = mb_substr($value, 1, mb_strlen($value) - 2);
+              $value = '"' . embed_src($value) . '"';
+            }
+
+            $attrs[$attr] = $value;
+          }
+          $newHtmlTag = "<img";
+          foreach ($attrs as $attrName => $attrValue) {
+            $newHtmlTag .= " " . $attrName . "=" . $attrValue;
+          }
+          $newHtmlTag .= ">";
+          $html = str_replace($htmlTag, $newHtmlTag, $html);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $html;
+}
+
 add_filter('wp_kses_allowed_html', 'custom_wpkses_post_tags', 10, 2);
 
 wp_oembed_add_provider('#http://(www\.)?youtube\.com/watch.*#i', 'http://www.youtube.com/oembed', true);