External and hotlinked images fail to become featured
Featured images fail to set when the image is hotlinked, blocked by hotlink protection, or sits behind an unusual URL.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 20 November 2020 · last reported 23 August 2024
What's going wrong
Owners who migrated posts from Blogger or from other WordPress sites report that the featured image tool skips many images that are linked from outside their own domain.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 7 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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