Title: Old images
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Old images

 *  Resolved [andrifranklin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrifranklin/)
 * (@andrifranklin)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-images/)
 * I installed the Contextly plugin when I hadn’t finished uploading all of my featured
   images, so many of the posts showing up in Contextly’s related posts had the 
   default image showing.
 * When I uploaded the images to the post I expected the images would be updated
   in Contextly as well, but they haven’t been. Is there a way for me to make the
   plugin update all images?
 * The same thing seems to happen if I at first upload the wrong image and then 
   upload the right one, the first image is always the one that is used.
 * I guess I could do it by uninstalling and then re-installing the plugin, but 
   I’m hoping there is another way.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextly-related-links/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextly-related-links/)

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 *  Plugin Author [rsingel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsingel/)
 * (@rsingel)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-images/#post-5049792)
 * Hi Andri,
 * Updating images is a bit tricky because of weird quirk in WordPress.
 * The secret is to change the image, then change something meaningless in the post.
   Add a space somewhere after a period. Then UPDATE the post. After that, we’ll
   figure out the new image.
 * We do have plans to make this automatic, but here’s the explanation of why that
   happens.
 * Our system relies on the WordPress “update” time. Basically, we constantly check
   if a post has been updated by looking for a timestamp that is more recent than
   the one we have, and if that new timestamp is there, we then look for new tags,
   categories, images, text, urls, etc.
 * But, WordPress doesn’t change the update time if you change the featured image.
   So basically, our system doesn’t know a change has occurred if a featured image
   is changed. This is a known problem and we have a few ideas on how to fix it.
 * Thanks for letting us know and we do plan to make this effortless in the near
   future.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-images/#post-5049792)
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