# Issue with image uploads on embedded topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 5, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655 "2021-04-05T14:02:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Jim\_Starkweather](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jim_Starkweather)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655/1 "2021-04-05T14:02:57Z")
I commented about this in the topic here:
> [@Embed Discourse comments on another website via Javascript](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963):
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> Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out [Coding Horror’s blog](http://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/#discourse-comments). The blog is run via [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) but the comments are embedded from his [Discourse forum](http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/welcome-to-the-internet-of-compromised-things/3550). One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …
We are having an image upload failure using the Comment Embedding feature. When the initial post is created, the image is set as the remote URL and displays normally.
After about 5 minutes the process for the remote to local image transfer happens and replaces the image with an upload text call like this:
Also I thought I was on to something this morning (as we are having no issues with this functionality on regular posts) by changing the ownership from ‘system’ to a regular user prior to the upload process running. However we got the same result.
Rebuilding HTML has no effect either.
Thanks for any help or insight you can provide. 😉
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655/2 "2021-04-05T16:53:04Z")
> [@Jim\_Starkweather](#):
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> After about 5 minutes the process for the remote to local image transfer happens and replaces the image with an upload text call like this:
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> 
It sounds like you are running into the issue described here: [Fix broken images for posts created by the WP Discourse and RSS plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-broken-images-for-posts-created-by-the-wp-discourse-and-rss-plugins/160773). There are more details about the issue in this post: [Fix broken images for posts created by the WP Discourse and RSS plugins - #3 by simon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-broken-images-for-posts-created-by-the-wp-discourse-and-rss-plugins/160773/3).
There is a related, but unresolved #Contribute > Bug topic about the issue here: [Markdown rendering issue with image surrounded with HTML](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-rendering-issue-with-image-surrounded-with-html/152801)
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### Author:  [@Jim\_Starkweather](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jim_Starkweather)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655/3 "2021-04-05T19:01:53Z")
Thanks Simon. Based on that I have simply added my sites to the Disabled Image sites list in settings. That should fix that issue. Also I really don’t need them taking up space on multiple servers so win-win. 🙂
Cheers,
Jim
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655/4 "2021-04-05T22:16:49Z")
That’s great that you’ve found a work around. I’ll close this topic now since there is already a #Contribute > Bug topic for the issue.
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-image-uploads-on-embedded-topics/185655/5 "2021-04-05T22:16:52Z")