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
