I’m a bit puzzled by the URLs of the photos. These aren’t the kind of files typically used in a WordPress media library. It seems you’ve changed the path to the upload directory, or you’re uploading them via FTP and linking to them manually.
As for why the URL you mentioned leads to a 404 page, that’s easy to explain: the URL is incorrect because the file extension is misspelled. It says JPG, but it should be jpg. As soon as you spell it correctly, the file will be accessible.
When using files in URLs, you should pay very close attention to uppercase and lowercase letters. If the files were managed through WordPress (I’m not sure about that), WordPress would handle that for you.
Thanks for your replies. It looks like it has to do with the extension. On my FTP it is .jpg, in WordPress it is .JPG. So non-capital versus capital.
The strange thing is though, I don’t know how that happened. Alle the files were uploaded via the media library in WordPress and at the time of posting, it worked. Else I would have noticed it immediately. Is there a way to change it easily in batch?
How do you insert the images into your page so they appear there? Is this perhaps a feature of your commercial theme “The Fox”? If so, you’ll need to contact their support team for clarification: https://themeforest.net/item/the-fox-contemporary-magazine-theme-for-creators/11103012/support – questions about commercial products cannot be answered here in the forum.
I use the classic editor. And it looks like this:
<a href=”/fotos/filename.jpg”><img class=”align none size-full wp-image-1234″ src=”/fotos/filename.jpg” alt=”text” width=”800″ height=”535″ /></a>
What I always do is upload the image via the Media Library, and than just hit “enter in post” (or what it is called in English, I am using the Dutch translation).
I don’t think it has to do with the theme actually. Somehow not all extensions are converted to lower case. And as I said, when I posted the pictures it worked fine. Don’t know when it went wrong, just found it out today per accident.
And as said, it seems it only happened with photos around 2010-2011 (didn’t check all my posts)
So, if you create a completely new post and insert any image into it, it works, and the problem only affects posts from 2010/11? If so, it could be a historical issue – they may have been linked incorrectly back then.
But if it also happens with new posts, I’d recommend ruling out the theme and plugins as the cause. Deactivate plugins (except Classic Editor, probably) and switch the theme as a test.
It only occurs in the older posts. New posts have no issues.
is there a way to correct it in a batch? Via SQL maybe?
If this only affects older posts, there are several ways to automate the process. The problem, however, is that none of these options actually checks whether the links are still accessible. But here are a few options anyway:
Disadvantage of all options:
You would have to explicitly limit the replacement to older posts. I’m not sure if that would work reliably.
And: be sure to create a backup beforehand.
Alternatively, you can also edit the posts manually. Depending on the number of posts, this might actually be more reliable.
Another alternative would be a custom WP CLI-driven script that performs the replacement. That would likely be the most precise way to achieve this.
Thanks! I have an estimate of over a hundred items to correct. So some automation will be nice. I will dive in your suggestions tomorrow. Thanks for your help!
