WP "correcting" external image links to internal ones!

  • I’m trying to add an externally-hosted image to a blog post. I’ve tried doing this by copy/pasting pre-written code into the HTML editor in WP, and also by using the “Add Image” popup tool.

    In both cases, the code appears, I then Publish or Update the page… and WordPress has changed the external link to one pointing to a similarly-named (and non-existent) image in my uploaded_images folder.

    Erm… why? I don’t want to download the image and host it myself. That defeats the purpose of pointing to an external image, surely?

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  • Make sure that you use the full image url.

    Thread Starter mosher

    (@mosher)

    Thanks, Esmi – I am. Absolutely for sure. Copied, pasted and tested.

    I also found that it’s not doing it *all* the time. I’ve managed to get the posts up by luck more than anything, I think. Now they’re there I daren’t go in and edit them in case it self-corrects again!

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