Issue Broken Images / Hotlink Errors when Loading Content Remotely in a Mailchimp Campaign

[AJDesignCo]

I have set up a few sites with a blog that feeds into a MailChimp RSS-based email campaign. This is a solution for pushing new blog posts out to an email list in a method that allows a good bit of control of the content and experience. Things were working great the first place I set this up. But lately, I noticed problems with hotlinked image errors or with images breaking.

After some troubleshooting with MediaTemple support, I ended up discovering that images would load properly if I detached the site from Wordpress Toolkit.

There may be other contributing issues — I don't know for sure. But I think this is a problem with Wordpress Toolkit running on Linux servers. The issue completely resolved when I detached Wordpress Toolkit from the site.

 

[Monty]

Just a wild guess: Did you maybe activate hotlinking-protection in Wordpress toolkit?
The procedure is described here: How to prevent hotlinking graphics from the domain?

 

[AJDesignCo]

Thanks Monty! I think the issue was present whether hotlink protection was enabled or not. Perhaps it was related to .htaccess entries? Not sure. Regardless, the issue was resolved by detaching the site from Wordpress Toolkit (and no changes were made to .htaccess).

 

[custer]

Hey @AJDesignCo,

The behavior you've encountered is kind of expected due to the way hotlink protection works. You can roll back this security improvement and continue to work with your site without any issues.

PS. It seems that putting hotlink protection to the list of security measures was an oversight on our part. We're planning to move this option out of security measure list to make sure nobody else is confused by its presence there.