Images not appearing on homepage

@ynannette,

When you login to the WordPress dashboard and go to Settings > General, under WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL), does it say https://69.195.124.107/~hopeint7/ or https://www.hopeinthehealing.com?

Your home page images are not showing up because the home page is on the hopeinthehealing.com domain, but the images and links are pointing to the /~hopint7/ URL.

Both the WordPress Address and Site Address say hopeint7. What are they supposed to say? And how do I fix it? Do I just change the URL’s to the hopeinthehealing.com address?

I changed the WordPress Address URL to say https://www.hopeinthehealing.com and left the Site Address as https://69.195.124.107/~hopeint7 but it didn’t make any difference. There are still no images on the homepage. Now what? ??

Hi,
It happens something similar with my page, ynannette. In my case, there are buttons that open another pages; well, in some cases the buttons images have disappeared and I only can see grey squares (though the links to the pages still work). It just happens sometimes (for example, at the end of the Infantil-English tab page).
Besides, I cannot edit any image in the blog, not even open the image when I press the Edit button on the image itself.
Does anybody know how to resolve these problems?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
https://escuelabilingue.wordpress.com/infantil/

@ynanette, fear not. I’m am working up a solution for you.

The issue is caused by the (very common) fact that the site was developed on the temporary URL, but is “Live” at the domain name URL. The temporary URL is embedded in the database for the links to the images.

Also, those “missing” images have a hard coded URL of “/~hopeint7/wp-content/uploads/yadayadayada”. When browsing from https://www.hopeinthehealing.com, that works out to “www.hopeinthehealing.com/~hopeint7/wp-content/uploads/yadayadayada” which is not a valid URL. See, the domain name based URL only works withOUT the “/~hopein7” part.

The solution will require you to install a plugin that will let you search the database for “bad text” and replace it with “good text”. If you will be comfortable with that, I’ll send you that solution.

Another solution that you can do by hand is going to each of your blog posts and editing the link to the images in the posts by removing the “/~hopeint7” text from the link.

@mjmerinoroman,

You are in the wrong support forum as you are using wordpress.COM for your site. You need to ask your question at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/.

This forum is for the self-hosted WordPress. The problems and solutions are not the same.

Hey David, I talked to Bluehost this morning because things were an absolute disaster and I couldn’t even get on, it kept saying something about my host. He changed the the URL’s and told me I had too much on my homepage and if I would scale everything down it would fix the problem so I did, and it didn’t ?? I still have broken images everywhere. Now I am back to where we started! I can get on but I have no pictures. I cannot imagine having to go back through 70+ posts and reloading 250+ images. If you have any other suggestions I would gladly take them. You are welcome to get back on there and see what he did. Cleared the cache, etc in permalinks…thanks so much!

@ynannette – as David mentioned, the URL file paths to your images are wrong –

src="/~hopeint7/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/062-1024x768.jpg

This is a good plugin to use to fix those:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

But be VERY, VERY sure to make a backup of your database before doing anything.

I am so confused ?? It has been working just fine and now all of a sudden it is chaos. I’m not sure I am capable!! Could a plugin have caused this mess? It seemed like everything was fine until I installed Related Posts plugin and everything went haywire.

@ynannette,

It is still fixable once and for all. It is still important if you can backup your database first before making any more changes.

Install the “Search and Replace” plugin, but don’t do anything with it until you let me know it’s installed. It can destroy your database if used incorrectly.

I am looking how to back up the database then I will install the search and replace plugin

I’m done!! It says it appears the back up is successfully completed. I backed up to Dropbox with the help of my hubby ?? I have installed the search and replace plugin and stopped

Ok, now Activate the plugin if you haven’t already.

Then go to Tools > Search & Replace.

In the “Search for” text box put:
https://69.195.124.107/~hopeint7/wp-content/uploads/

In the “Replaced with” text box put:
https://www.hopeinthehealing.com/wp-content/uploads/

Click on/select the radio button/option next to “All – search/replace!”

MAKE SURE THE “Search for” and “Replace with” TEXT IS CORRECT AS ABOVE.

Then click the “Go” button.

The plugin will run and tell you how many times it replaced the text in what tables.

Ok, now you’re going to run it one more time with a slight change.

In the “Search for” text box put:
/~hopeint7/wp-content/uploads/

In the “Replaced with” text box put:
https://www.hopeinthehealing.com/wp-content/uploads/

Click on/select the radio button/option next to “All – search/replace!”

MAKE SURE THE “Search for” and “Replace with” TEXT IS CORRECT AS ABOVE.

Then click the “Go” button.

The plugin will run and tell you how many times it replaced the text in what tables.

Deactivate this plugin (and even delete it if you wish) so it doesn’t cause a security issue later.

Your image links should now be fixed.

Im here and working ??

I think you are a genius!!! I only see one page so far that the picture is messed up but everything else is working great!!!!!!!!!!!!