Updating image links on imported site

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    kmwhitehouse · Member ·

    I recently imported my blog from an externally hosted WordPress site to WordPress.com. It looks like all the images were imported into my library, but the references to images in all the posts appear to be going to the old site.

    Is there any way to globally change the links to go to the images of the same file name in my library?

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

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    kmwhitehouse · Member ·

    An update for anyone who may stumble across this thread. I researched this issue further, submitted a support request, and received a reply that helped to clarify the situation.

    What is happening is this:

    When I edit a page in HTML mode, most of the links to images appear to refer to images on the site where the blog was previously hosted. When the page is published, however, the links are intercepted by a service named Photon that rewrites the URLs to point to a WordPress hosting site on a domain such as i0.wp.com, i1.wp.com, or i2.wp.com.

    So, in short, while it appears (when editing in HTML mode) that the site I imported is still dependent on its former host for the images, I now believe they are independently hosted on a WordPress.com content network.

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