Title: Avoiding External Image
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Avoiding External Image

 *  Resolved [philzyxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philzyxx/)
 * (@philzyxx)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/)
 * Hi
 * Is there any way to avoid having images cross-posted to tumblr from wordpress
   appear as ‘external image’? Are you able to suggest some kind of workaround?
 * Cheers
    Phil
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693356)
 * What do you mean, “external image”?
 *  Thread Starter [philzyxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philzyxx/)
 * (@philzyxx)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693369)
 * The image doesn’t appear, it just has the words ‘external image’ in grey which
   you have to click on to see the image.
 * Is there some way to avoid having this happen?
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693370)
 * Right above the button you pressed to post this message, this forum asks you:
 * > Did you include a link to your site, so that others can see the problem?
 *  Thread Starter [philzyxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philzyxx/)
 * (@philzyxx)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693374)
 * I haven’t included a link as it’s just a general question. I’ve removed the images
   that were coming up with this ‘external image’ problem anyway.
 * Besides I’m not particularly motivated to give a link to my site after reading
   the other thread related to the problem I’m having:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-in-tumblr?replies=6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-in-tumblr?replies=6)
 * You don’t even help the guy, you make some judgmental comments about the content
   of his page lol.
 * Do you have any advice on avoiding the ‘external image’ problem or is there no
   way around it?
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693375)
 * I still don’t know what you’re talking about with regards to “external image”
   and if you don’t want to show me what you mean, then I have neither the means
   nor the desire to help you.
 *  [platinumhappy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/platinumhappy/)
 * (@platinumhappy)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693429)
 * I know this is resolved, but I thought I would provide clarification (especially
   since this has come up frequently it seems).
 * On the Tumblr dashboard view for both the desktop website and the mobile app,
   an “External image” block will appear in place of the actual image when it is
   hosted on an external site. It seems that this also applies to Tumblr-hosted 
   images that are changed from a possible relative URL to an absolute URL, as our
   older Tumblr posts that contain Tumblr-hosted images but were edited in WordPress
   have also changed to show the external image block when viewed in the dashboard.
   This issue does not come up if you view the Tumblr blog through its proper URL
   rather than through the dashboard.
 * Here is a screencap showing you what the issue looks like:
 * [http://platinum-happy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/tumblr-external-image-issue.png](http://platinum-happy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/tumblr-external-image-issue.png)
 * I believe this is an issue on Tumblr’s side, that cannot be changed on the WordPress(
   or plugin) side. I hope this information will help anyone else who might have
   the same issue, and is browsing the forums. You should send a support ticket 
   to Tumblr requesting to change this.

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 * Last reply from: [platinumhappy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/platinumhappy/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoiding-external-image/#post-6693429)
 * Status: resolved