Load WordPress server upload directory files from localhost. Circumvent having to download large wp-upload directories so we can load images locally.

.htaccess

#Allow us to load images from server instead of having to download them all for large sites
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wp-content/uploads/[^\/]*/.*$
  RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ https://yourwebsitename.com/wp-content/uploads/$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress