jamiebdc

Thanks very much for clarifying this Steve. I phoned up GoDaddy and the technical support in their hosting department examined the site closely and found that this exactly the problem:

‘Upon further investigation, there appears to be some hard coding on images that were not brought over completely to the new wordpress installation.

Images are generally stored in wordpress under the directory “/wp-content/uploads”
The hard coding from the other site store the images to “/uploads”
The single “uploads” folder is not in the new installation which means that it was not transferred over to the new wordpress.’

I have now passed this information over to the professional developer who I paid to do the migration (which took him eight months) and he has agreed to rectify it. Hopefully it won’t take another eight months.

Many thanks for your advice and support here. Most grateful.

Thanks Steve and @jaycbrf for your helpful comments. The site was created as a Weebly website, hosted on a GoDaddy domain. Over the last few months, a professional developer transferred everything across onto WordPress, with the domain still hosted by GoDaddy. I am new to WordPress so cannot confirm how exactly the uploads were organised.

What puzzles me is that – if this was a problem in the transfer (i.e. a discrepancy between the method of uploading the images originally, and how WordPress now regards them) – why did they all look fine in the temporary domain yesterday? They have only disappeared since we switched over from the temporary domain and activated the present site. Is there something in THIS process that could have such an effect?