Hello there! I’m using a CDN to upload images, and they appear fine in the preview, but when I publish a post, the images show up as “external image” links. I can view the images normally by clicking the links, so it doesn’t seem to be a permissions issue. How can I resolve this?
AI-generated summary
A user, 태우_김, is experiencing an issue where images uploaded via a CDN appear as “external image” links after publishing a post, despite being viewable by clicking the links. Don suggests this issue is likely due to the block hotlinked media setting being enabled. To resolve this, Don recommends one of the following solutions:
- Unchecking the
block hotlinked mediasetting - Adding the CDN URL to the
block hotlinked media exceptionssetting - Enabling the
download remote image to localsetting
Hello ![]()
This seems you have enabled the block hotlinked media setting ![]()
I think you can solve it by uncheck the block hotlinked media setting.
Or
Add the url to exception to block hotlinked media exceptions setting.
Or
Additionally enable the download remote image to local will also shows these media after it downloaded to local but I think there is a reason why you disabled it.

