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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Import External Images] Does not seem to work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-seem-to-work-7/)
 *  [plrang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/plrang/)
 * (@plrang)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-seem-to-work-7/#post-5402724)
 * This plugin did not want to import my images if they had this suffix
    ?w=300 
   or other number ?w=500 ?w=550 etc.
 * Plugin did the job after I removed that suffix. Because there were couple of 
   hundreds of image links I used Broken Link Checker to change that invalid URLs
   to clean ones, using the Bulk Edit option of Broken Link Checker, using simple
   regular expression like this:
 * 1) http ://OLDSITE.wordpress.com/(.*\.jpg)\?w=.*
 * 2) http ://NEWSITE.wordpress.com/$1
 * So if there were image links like
 * http ://OLDSITE…../image-name.jpg?w=550
 * they got changed to
 * http ://NEWSITE…../image-name.jpg
 * REMEMBER to
    tick the “Regular expression” checkbox! if you have png or other
   files – change it accordingly
 * I also had to remap some images with the https prefix, so simply changed the 
   prefix in that first 1) expression to https.
 * Then the Import External … worked.
 * If You are scared (like I was) just try it first on a single image, then check
   the post on the new site.
 * That’s it
 * One thing to remember is that the OLDSITE must be available for browsing SETTINGS/
   Search Engine Visibility

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