Image url references in new posts default to https creating broken link images

  • I’m posting to my site from the wordpress android app, and when I create a new post on it, the app defaults to using the https url reference for images I include instead of http. I do NOT have an SSL certificate, so this leads to the page displaying broken image links because browsers won’t display the content since they can’t verify the SSL because there isn’t one! I need to figure out where the setting is in wordpress or my theme or the app that makes the image url references default to https and change it. The images are accessible via the same link just with http instead of https, so just the default url inclusion text in the post needs to be changed.

    This site had been working fine until the end of the year when I changed to a new hosting plan and also updated worpdress. Everything came over fine and all the old posts work great, it’s only the new posts since the migration and upgrade that are broken. I’m not sure which one caused my issues as I did it all at once, but it’s giving me this problem now.

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  • You really need to post this in the WP Android app support forum. We don’t support the mobile apps here.

    Hi there,
    I don’t know why the app uses https. I just tried and connected the app to one of my non-https sites and everything works fine.
    Anyways… you can fix the links that are already there by using this script
    Search & Replace
    or
    Better Search & Replace Plugin
    to replace for example
    img src="https://www.lokipup.com/wp-content/uploads/"
    with
    img src="https://www.lokipup.com/wp-content/uploads/"

    I don’t know what’s wrong with the app. Maybe uninstall and reinstall it and try again???

    Thread Starter tildenhagan

    (@tildenhagan)

    Figured it out… While I’d gone through every possible setting in the app and there was nothing I could change, when I tried to uninstall and reinstall the app I noticed an SSL error when I went to setup the connection in the app to my site. I probably could have just removed and re-added the site, but when it went to connect to my site, it said there was an untrusted SSL issue which I probably ignored the first time I installed the app. When I looked at the issue this time, it was due to the way GoDaddy hosting works where my primary domain on the hosting account does have an SSL certificate, but this add on domain does not. Adding the site as lokipup.com on the WP android app made it somehow pull up the SSL cert for the primary hosting domain instead of not having one on this add on domain name. When I added the site to the app as https://www.lokipup.com, there was no SSL error that popped up and the image references no longer have the https.

    Hi there,
    good to hear you solved the puzzle!
    Have a good time with your site!

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