22 06, 2016

Jetpack’s Photon Plugin Breaks Images on WordPress

By |June 22nd, 2016|Categories: Blogging|Tags: , , , , , , |2 Comments

Over a month ago I was overjoyed to have found what I thought was the issue causing my broken image nightmare. While this helped for minor issues, I started having reoccurring issues and this time a refresh wasn't helping. When I went to the link I noticed it wasn't a liliontheloose.com domain, but a wp.com domain. And any broken images would serve up an error of "We cannot complete this request, remote data could not be fetched". Google searches pointed me to years old Wordpress Plugin support, all pointing to the Photon feature. I soon disabled it and everything was working.

14 04, 2016

How To Fix Random Broken Images in WordPress

By |April 14th, 2016|Categories: Blogging|Tags: , , , , , |9 Comments

Source I have been struggling with the most annoying problem for the last few months. I'd find that images on my blog would randomly be broken. Sometimes on a refresh it would be fine, and then BAM, no more image. I would try re-saving the image, re-saving the post, and sometimes it would work...and sometimes it would break something else. What was so frustrating was that I knew that the images were still there on my server. I knew that the image locations and URLs hadn't changed. So why were the images randomly becoming broken on my Wordpress