Images lost on older posts

• 

  curioustothemax · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 12:34 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Images (i-photo) from my older posts (which were originally successfully uploaded) are gone when I go back months or years later to edit the post (box with a “?” inside appears). What is happening? Can this be remedied?

  I’ve been blogging for several years and this has been a consistent problem necessitating my uploading the original photo images again and again.

  http://judithwesterfield.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 2:02 am

  • Copy link

  Where were the images hosted?

  Did you upload them into your Media Library on your blog?

  Have you exhausted your free media storage space? Look on your Media Library page at the top to see if that’s the case or not.
  http://judithwesterfield.com/wp-admin/upload.php

  Have you deleted images from your Media Library? If you delete an image file from your Media Library then you are removing it from WordPress.COM servers and it cannot be displayed when a browser calls for it. In order to have the images display you have to upload them again.

  Have you hot-linked to images hosted on an other site?

  I think you will benefit from reading
  http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/20/omg-my-images-are-gone/

• 

  curioustothemax · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 2:34 am

  • Copy link

  Thank you for the clarification. I will double check to see if I’ve deleted them from my media library. Since I’ve not hot-linked that is the most likely scenario.

  My media library is so large I have periodically culled photos out not understanding how it all works.

  Your response was very helpful.

• 

  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 2:38 am

  • Copy link

  I’m glad I was able to help. Best wishes.