Does not seem to work

If you include a few of the urls to the external images I could see if anything stands out.

I’m getting this same issue. There are about 10 posts. the images are linking to

https://leopoldgalleryblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/broadway_at_dusk_36x48_chow2013_web.jpg?w=300

When I first went to the plugin import page. it said I only had two posts with external images. But there are actually 9 that need to be imported.

It said when I first rant it, that those two posts were imported successfully. When I reload that page is give me that message:

We didn’t find any external images to import. You’re all set!

I checked the two posts, and it did import those two post image attachments. But it doesn’t recognize the other posts with images…

Hello, I used to use it for long. Yeah, it’s work great!!! I just notice few weeks lately. It won’t work any more.

This plugin did not want to import my images if they had this suffix
?w=300 or other number ?w=500 ?w=550 etc.

Plugin did the job after I removed that suffix. Because there were couple of hundreds of image links I used Broken Link Checker to change that invalid URLs to clean ones, using the Bulk Edit option of Broken Link Checker, using simple regular expression like this:

1) http ://OLDSITE.wordpress.com/(.*\.jpg)\?w=.*

2) http ://NEWSITE.wordpress.com/$1

So if there were image links like

http ://OLDSITE…../image-name.jpg?w=550

they got changed to

http ://NEWSITE…../image-name.jpg

REMEMBER to
tick the “Regular expression” checkbox!
if you have png or other files – change it accordingly

I also had to remap some images with the https prefix, so simply changed the prefix in that first 1) expression to https.

Then the Import External … worked.

If You are scared (like I was) just try it first on a single image, then check the post on the new site.

That’s it

One thing to remember is that the OLDSITE must be available for browsing SETTINGS / Search Engine Visibility