Nevermind, I believe I’ve fixed it. In the feed settings, I checked the option to enable character encoding conversion. Then I deleted the original import and re-imported. Now we’re rolling. One downside: the image is missing from the post even though it shows as a featured image, but hey I’ll take it.
Marking this as resolved for others to find if they have a similar issue.
the image is missing from the post even though it shows as a featured image
I need to see the original feed’s URL.
I should also note that the image shows up in the body when I go to edit the post.
There is an <img> tag within the post. It has style="display:none;" on it, but commenting it out through the inspector does not make it show. When I also comment out the srcset="... part, that allows the image to show.
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jpokines.
And just now I refreshed the page after changing nothing in the back end, and the image is showing. No idea.
Perhaps the image just didn’t load into your browser. Do you store the post images at your own host or hotlink them?
I’m not sure what did it. I’ve had them hosted locally from the start. In any case, thank you for the speedy attention!
And here’s the “duh” moment: The site I’m pulling the feed from is http, and my site is https. So the browser is blocking the “insecure” external references.
The part the doesn’t make sense is I have these images set to store locally. In any case, I’m checking with the owner of the source site to see about making his site secure.
So you should save the images locally and not hotlink them.
I did have it set to save locally.
I also looked at the write permissions for the uploads folder. They were at 755, meaning “group” and “public” did not have write permission, only “owner” had write permission. I just set it to 777. Would group/public not having write permission cause it to default to hotlink?
The uploads folder must be chmod to 777, otherwise the PHP script won’t be able to create the new files there.
