# Images not publishing to Discourse in WP 5.3

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-not-publishing-to-discourse-in-wp-5-3/133636>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [November 17, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-not-publishing-to-discourse-in-wp-5-3/133636 "2019-11-17T23:26:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-not-publishing-to-discourse-in-wp-5-3/133636/6 "2019-11-18T23:15:40Z")

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The problem seems to be that when the Discourse upload markdown is wrapped in HTML tags, the markdown isn’t getting parsed. For example, this is what I’m seeing for a WordPress post after the Discourse `PullHotlinkedImages` Job is run:

```plaintext
<small>Originally published at: https://scossar.com/figure-tags-cause-issues/
		</small><br>
<figure class="wp-block-image">![](upload://3hPHOMnM5v5srjlz5QWGmVxY4AL.jpeg)</figure>

```

Editing the post to remove any html tags that are surrounding the markdown link solves the issue, but a proper solution will need to be found for this.

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