404’s

in essence, the 404 errors are occurring because WordPress is a visual CMS that converts your content into code so that it can be presented in a format suitable for web design.

When you create a post and add an image by clicking “add media” and then selecting the image/resizing/repositioning etc. WordPress is working in the background to produce the code behind all of your choices (you can see this code by going to “text” in the editor).

This code adds an image in text format. So when you select the image you want (let’s call it “my image.jpg”) for your post and click “insert” WordPress compiles a code similar to:

<img src="https://yourdomainname.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/my-image.jpg" />

When you change the file name of this image (let’s say to “my new image.jpg) then when your post loads, the code is still trying to load the above code with the old image name.

You don’t need to complete 404 redirects for all images, but you do need to update the images in your posts to make sure the code is calling for the new image (<img src="https://yourdomainname.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/my-new-image.jpg" />).

To do this, you will need to click on the image within the post editor a reselect the same image (with the new name) and insert this into your post, then click to update the post.

This can be very tedious, depending on how many images/posts you have, but you will keep getting errors until this happens

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by visiondigital.