Images not showing up

[HDTV-Entertainment]

All subdomians at my site use Forward and are not showing images in the articles. It does in the surrounding template areas, but not within the article. This appears to have started recently with the new WordPress update.

When checked in the page admin, the images are there and linked to properly, but on page, I just get the alt text. Something must have changed.

Rick

[Bill Robbins]

Hi Rick,

I took a look and the images did appear for me, but looking at the code I did spot a problem. The site is loading via https, but the srcset images that have recently been added to WordPress are loading via http only. Depending on the visitor’s browser’s settings that could keep the images from being visible.

I found a thread at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/responsive-images-src-url-is-https-srcset-url-is-http-no-images-loaded where some other users ran into the same issue. A couple of them needed to make a change to the wp-config.php file to make sure it had everything set properly. There is a quick patch plugin called SSL Insecure Content Fixer (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-insecure-content-fixer/) that may also help until you get things squared away at the source.

That may not be the issue either, but it’s not a bad place to start. You can disable the srcset images (https://github.com/josephfusco/disable-responsive-images for example), but you may run into issues with other items in the future if there is something off with the configuration.

Hope that points you in the direction of a solution.

Take care,
Bill

[HDTV-Entertainment]

Not sure this is a factor, but it appears to be only on the featured image.
Will try the pat plugin.

Rk

[HDTV-Entertainment]

The fix plugin did the trick. I suppose I can just leave it active and not change my wp-config.php file as I think it has already done so.

As always Bill, thanks…

Thanks
Rick

[Bill Robbins]

Hi Rick,

Glad that worked. Most likely since it did, it means there is something not configured properly with the SSL. The plugin is a patch and it may work for a long time. Just remember in the future if you run into any https trouble or something seemingly unrelated like missing images that the misconfiguration may play a role.

You could probably get WP Engine to help you out there. I’m not a sever person and they’ve helped me several times with SSL questions and setup.

Take care,
Bill

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