Image Links Always Broken

  • I am really disappointed with WordPress since starting my blog a month ago, and making the update to version 3.9. I purchased a Genesis package and a premium child theme with the thought that my life would be easier. But since making the WordPress Updates I cannot post to my blog without hours if frustration dealing with images that load that disappear and links that appear broken. WordPress is supposed to be a topnotch blogging platform. I can’t post anymore because none of my images work.

    I was told to downgrade my version to 3.8. I shouldn’t have to go through that headache. It should just work. Period. I am baffled that this was the answer provided in forums. Fix the latest release of WordPress please, because bloggers should be able to post to their blogs with images without struggling for hours contending with broken links to images and a media library that doesn’t work.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    I’m sorry that you’re having problems with your installation. Self-hosting your own WordPress installation isn’t easy and does require some work and you may be able to resolve these issues yourself.

    Have you reviewed the 3.9 Master list?

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wordpress-39-master-list?replies=6

    It is a long reading but the parts on the Visual Editor may apply to you if you cannot post on your installation.

    I’m having a similar issue. Used to be on wordpress.com, but got self-hosting with bluehost. When I installed wordpress 3.9 and imported my XML file, I have tons of broken images in my posts, and some were linked to a page with the visible image.

    I know the images are in the directory because they are still in my Media Library, but they appear broken in my posts. It will take DAYS for me to go through each individual post to re-insert images.

    I had a thread here (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/missing-things-after-xml-import?replies=28), but the “solution” I was told was just to manually fix it, which is ridiculous.

    All the how-to and step-by-step sites make it seem like its so easy to “just export then import” but noone seems to want to help when there’s errors. So I’m left scratching my head wondering why I ever decided to move to self-hosted.

    Could anyone please help me?

    @alongourway: Please continue with your existing topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/missing-things-after-xml-import?replies=28

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    I’m having a similar issue.

    AlongOurWay? As this is beach.carrie’s topic and your problem is different, can we please focus on the original topic?

    You can start your own topic via this link.

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform

    It’s not that I don’t want you to participate in this topic but it’s not the best thing to do interrupting someone else’s topic like that.

    Edit: Beaten to the reply by 46 seconds…

    Thread Starter beach.carrie

    (@beachcarrie)

    Along our way my situation is similar. image links show as broken. I too am self hosted through blue host. I have not been able to resolve the issue. Images are visible until I do a preview or publish.

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Images are visible until I do a preview or publish.

    Also can you provide a link to a published post that shows this? That may help to get this sorted out.

    esmi and Jan,
    Amazingly enough, deactivating all plugins fixed my issue. I apologize for cutting in to beach.carrie’s thread, but just glad I did because it resolved my issue!

    Hope emsmi’s last post helps you as well beach.carrie!!

    Thank you,
    Jenn

    Thread Starter beach.carrie

    (@beachcarrie)

    I have tried to deactivate all plugins, and unfortunately it didn’t help. The issue did happen again this morning, and while I was spitting nails, and trying a few different things to fix the issue, I believe I stumbled upon a fix.

    For me, if I upload multiple files to my media library, the issue unfolds. Time and time again. I noticed, that if I deleted the files, then went back into my media library and uploaded them one at a time, the images worked just fine when publishing or previewing.

    It appears the problem is with the multi-file uploader. Grrrr!

    I am crossing my fingers that my “find” is real, but I would like some other resolution here, other than uploading images one at a time. Seems like the system should be robust enough to handle multiple files.

    I hope this helps someone out there with the same headache, until the file uploader can be fixed.

    i have the same problem and tried both ways but it didn’t work.

    tried to deactivate all plugins, and uploaded one image one at a time and didn’t work either.
    is there any other solution????

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