Help with images from third-party host not showing in WordPress

Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be able to offer much in the way of specific help.

It’s difficult to show what’s happening without disrupting the gallery, but here are some images of the trouble:

first image is of the post page showing the direct link I’m using from Imgur’s server – an image of a site:

https://www.siiimple.com/post-page.png

second image is of the end result, which is the gallery not showing the image:

https://www.siiimple.com/post-result.png

I’m guessing it is a permissions problem…?

I just want to store the images on another server…but the direct link doesn’t work

the third image shows the direct link that I have been using, which references any image stored on in the WordPress uploads folder:

https://www.siiimple.com/post-working.png

Does that help? Perhaps I’m not describing the problem well enough

Thanks!

When I enter https://imgur.com/PP5GC.png into my browser, it redirects to https://i.imgur.com/PP5GC.png (notice the newly added i. preceding imgur.

I this case, I would recommend changing the large image URL to https://i.imgur.com/PP5GC.png

Unfortunately, changing the address didn’t seem to work. I thought it would, though. Never noticed that change in url.

Is this perhaps the issue?

“Consider that free image hosting services are recently becoming a less viable choice since traffic from them is often blocked by corporate networks.”

from the WordPress Coda

That is entirely possible. Considering the size of the images in the second screen shot, you really won’t notice any sort of disk space or bandwidth impact if you re-size the image to fit and host it yourself.

I tried the direct link from my Amazon S3 account and it still won’t work. It must have something to do with WordPress permissions. If I download it in my server in my WordPress directory, it shows fine. Strange.

You don’t think it would improve performance much by hosting these images elsewhere?

Thanks for your advice

No, hosting the images eslewhere will rarely improve perormance. In some cases, it may actually have a negative impact, since you’re relying on an external service beyond your control to provide your images.

It is still strange that no external images are loading, but I’m out of ideas, especially since it’s affecting both Imgur and Amazon.