Switching to SSL causes thumbnails not to load

I recently moved my WP-enabled site to SSL. Everything went fine, but RPT began showing the default thumbnail for all related posts. I found this old post suggesting the problem was due to not searching for both https:// and https:// as the scheme when scanning the post content for the first image URL.

This is my problem as well. I didn’t opt to go the full route of the earlier poster’s patch, but in essence I followed the same idea:

$wud = wp_upload_dir();
$baseurl = $wud['baseurl'];
$baseurl = str_replace('https://', 'https://', $baseurl);

// search the first uploaded image in content
preg_match_all( '|<img.*?src=[\'"](' . $baseurl . '.*?)[\'"].*?>|i', $post->post_content, $matches );

A more robust solution could be devised, but this solved my immediate problem and got my site looking right again.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by jimbonator.