Fix broken images for posts created by the WP Discourse and RSS plugins

[lhkjacky (Jacky)]

@simon

When discourse attempts to download the remote image, the following markdown would be generated for the first example:

<p>![](upload://6zqK52dO23i1JsYH2oyMU12U2ro.jpeg)</p>

This will create a broken image. It can be fixed manually be editing the Discourse post to:

<p>

![](upload://6zqK52dO23i1JsYH2oyMU12U2ro.jpeg)
</p>

It seem that the broken image from RSS feed cannot be fixed manually.
I can see the image reappear in the preview in the right side of the editor. But after I press save, the image are still broken in the post.

@simon

but just preventing Discourse from downloading the remote image with the disabled image download domains site setting is an easier way to fix it.

Discourse won’t generate thumbnail if the image is not local. If I disabled image download domains, all the post imported will have no thumbnail.

@merefield

No way around it. This is native discourse behaviour. All images have to be uploaded. You can set things up to use an offsite upload location, but they still need to be uploaded, not remote from your infrastructure.