Title: External image source changed
Last modified: November 1, 2023

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# External image source changed

 *  Resolved [jess69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jess69/)
 * (@jess69)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/)
 * Hi there, one of our main sources has changed the source url where their images
   were stored. Which caused all those images on our site to now be broken. Can 
   you suggest a way to fix this issue? Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [fifu.app](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marceljm/)
 * (@marceljm)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/#post-17167182)
 * Hi, [@jess69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jess69/).
 * Is there a pattern to convert the old URLs to the new ones? If so, it could be
   solved with a SQL command.
 *  Thread Starter [jess69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jess69/)
 * (@jess69)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/#post-17167215)
 * Thank for the quick response. Unfortunately it seems like a big change as in 
   example below:
 * Current image url in post: [https://cdn2.img.example.com/images/104/34/104.jpg](https://cdn2.img.example.com/images/104/34/104.jpg)
 * New url: [https://cdn1.img.example.com/img/104/33/104_0:237:450:2768_1920x0_80_0_0_0faeb99880ebd41b5f.jpg.webp](https://cdn1.img.example.com/img/104/33/104_0:237:450:2768_1920x0_80_0_0_0faeb99880ebd41b5f.jpg.webp)
 * Seems like they would all need be re-fetched some how as it’s caused 100s of 
   post to now lose their images.
 *  Plugin Author [fifu.app](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marceljm/)
 * (@marceljm)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/#post-17167250)
 * So unfortunately you would need to have a file that associates old and new URLs
   first. After that we could help you with the replacement.
 * The only solution we had to prevent that was FIFU Cloud. But we’re going to rebuild
   that soon to reduce cloud costs and make it cheap.
 *  Thread Starter [jess69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jess69/)
 * (@jess69)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/#post-17167282)
 * Sorry what do you mean by “you would need to have a file that associates old 
   and new URLs first.”? And FIFU Cloud seems great. Will lookout for the update(
   i’m assuming we will know somehow)
 *  Plugin Author [fifu.app](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marceljm/)
 * (@marceljm)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/#post-17167383)
 * Since there is no pattern to build the new URLs using the old URLs, you would
   need to find the new URLs by yourself.
 * Having the new URLs, you could:
    1. update each post manually.
    2. or, if you build a CSV file that contains old and new URLs, I could help you
       to build a SQL to update the URLs programmatically. This is what I meant.
 *  Thread Starter [jess69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jess69/)
 * (@jess69)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-image-source-changed/#post-17167532)
 * Ok understood. Seems it might not be possible as it’s 100s of posts. Will see
   what we can do and appreciate the help as always.

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