Question About Image Replacement

  • Resolved MichaelPaulmeno

    (@michaelpaulmeno)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    I have recently migrated a blog from Blogger to WordPress. The tool which handled the content transfer not only ported my posts over, but the images as well. Normally there would be no problem, but my hope is to move them into Amazon S3 to save space on my server.

    While the Amazon S3 and Cloudfront plugin seems to fit the bill I am concerned about image replacement. Clearly my media library will have to be re-uploaded. In the process, what will happen to the images link from my posts? Will they be rewritten with the correct URL or will it be necessary to re-add them manually?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

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  • Plugin Contributor A5hleyRich

    (@a5hleyrich)

    Uploading existing images to S3 isn’t possible in the free version. This will be feature of the pro version, which we’re currently working on.

    Thread Starter MichaelPaulmeno

    (@michaelpaulmeno)

    I thought manually deleting images from the server would still leave the (now broken) image links in my blog posts. Therefore once an item was re-uploaded it could simply reappear without me having to touch each page. Of course if said image is now hosted on S3 the link would still be wrong, hence my question.

    However I may have misunderstood how the plugin is designed to work. I thought by “automatically replaces the URL to each media file” you meant, the URLs in the blog posts themselves. It seems that will be reserved for the pro version. Do you know when it will come out?

    Thread Starter MichaelPaulmeno

    (@michaelpaulmeno)

    I decided to bite the bullet and simply rewrite all of the image links in my blog. As it turns out, not all of them transferred over from Blogger. Now I’ve installed the plugin and everything seems to be working fine.

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