WP is still referencing cloudinary images after deleting plugin

Hi,

In order to further assist, may I ask you to please open a support request here
with the following details:

* WordPress version.
* Cloudinary Plugin’s version.
* The theme that you use and its version.
* A full list of all other plugins that you have installed on your environment.
* Page builders that you actively use.
* A screenshot of your Media Library in list mode.
* A screenshot of your Site Health under the Tools Section.
* Hosting providers & Plan (AWS, WP-Engine, etc..)
* Multisite environment (subdomain/subdirectory)
* Do you have access to the WP-CLI?

Note that since version 2.7.0, you can use the new [system report](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/wordpress_integration#system_report) feature in order to generate all the information above except the screenshots. If you can also add some assets to your report as explained [here](https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022260599-How-to-generate-a-system-report-on-the-WordPress-plugin-) that could be helpful as well. The system report is under the Need Help? section in v3.

Once provided, we will take a deeper look into it on our end, trying to reproduce the issue to better understand the root cause of it.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Millie

Thanks for quick response. Ticket submitted here: https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/requests/168863?page=1

This is a follow-up to your previous request #168863 “Cloudinary WordPress plugin – Deactivation feedback”

I was finding that site speed wasn’t showing images compressed (getting F grade on image compression), and I was having issues with images not loading, or loading blurry images. So I disabled the plugin and selected to remove all settings.

some images would not load at all, some load blurry only, causing conflict with website cdn

after disabling plugin and removing plugin settings, theme is still referencing cloudinary over 7,000 times after

the issue here is that the cloudinary plugin re-wrote image references in at least 4 different ways (not straight text replacement), that will require complex regex pattern matching by a paid web developer to fix

I reached out to cloudinary and they brushed me off saying they don’t support images in widgets, which is basically Divi theme content areas all over the site, these are not really widgets

here are some examples of image references showing patterns that we have found:

1) pattern: https://res.cloudinary.com/optimal-business-consulting/image/upload/v1640703048/filename.extension

2) pattern: https://res.cloudinary.com/optimal-business-consulting/images/v1603470511/obc-wp/*filename without extension*/filename.extension

3) pattern: https://res.cloudinary.com/optimal-business-consulting/image/upload/*scale info*/v1595014444/obc-wp/filename.extension

4) pattern: https://res.cloudinary.com/optimal-business-consulting/images/*scale info*/v1/obc-wp//*filename without extension*/filename.extension

we have spent 10hrs on this so far with no fix, so now we will need to hire a web developer at additional $1800 to fix it!