Hi @jasonsgroovemachine
I hope you are doing well.
Not sure if I got the issue, you shared the /lets-play/numeral/ as need help which has the links for other pages including the /8doors/ and /the-7th-guest/, do you mean the images on /the-7th-guest/ and 8doors are the ones should appear on /lets-play/numeral/ ?
“getting custom URL’s to update when I change them on an imagine in the media library”
How are you switching images? I noticed you are using shortpix CDN on front end, if you are using a plugin such as media replace which maintains the image it is possible the CDN is caching it, please try disabling the CDN for a moment and see if makes any difference on your issue.
Best Regards
Patrick Freitas
The images aren’t being changed, the URL is… but the URL isn’t updating anywhere but in the media library.
You are apparently embedding the images using the Image Block in the Block Editor. It remembers the URLs from the time of embedding and uses them even if you change the URL of the embedded image. The details can be found in the page source code of the pages you edit with the Block Editor.
There are two ways to solve this:
- Edit the pages where the images are embedded and replace the existing images with the new ones.
- Use a tool such as Better Search Replace to search the entire database for the old name and replace it with the new one. Again, you have to do this individually for each image.
And yes, this can be tedious. However, it is mainly due to the fact that you cannot simply change the file names of images in WordPress. Therefore, you usually do not need to update them in the content.
Incidentally, this problem does not arise if you assign the images as post images. In this case, it is independent of the block editor and there is only one reference to the image, which is then used by the theme to display the post image. This might be worth considering for further work on the project.
