Images Being Removed by Plugin | CyberSEO Pro | Support Forum

How exactly are they removed. From the post bodies or are they just hidden in the browser? Did they disappear from existing posts or did the plugin stop adding them to new posts? Please provide all necessary information.

It seems that the image is being hidden in the CyberSEO Pro General Settings: https://www.cyberseo.net/general-settings/#post-images

This option has a temporary effect. It does not affect the content of the post in the database, but the behavior of your WP theme when enabled. Please read the documentation: https://www.cyberseo.net/general-settings/#post-images

Here is a quote:

Enable this option to dynamically show or hide images when displaying a post. This is a runtime option that affects all posts on your site, whether they were created by CyberSEO Pro or not. The effect is immediate when the option is enabled and disappears immediately when it is disabled.

This setting can be useful, for example, to hide the first post image if it is the same as the featured image. It can also help solve the “duplicate image” problem described here.

• • show all images – Displays all images in all posts.
    
  • hide first image – Hides only the first image in each post.
  • hide all images but post thumbnail – Hides all images in all posts, leaving only the featured image visible.
  • hide post thumbnail – Hides the featured image but keeps other images in the post visible.

It seems the images just don't exist at your server. E.g.: https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Notes-to-Self-by-Mark-OBrien.jpeg

They appear to have been removed. Make sure you haven't changed the default settings for the Keep downloaded images option. It is enabled (checked) by default.

CyberSEO Pro does not render anything. Your WP theme does. The plugin just adds posts to your database and that's all it does. So if the Post Images option is set to "show all images", it doesn't affect anything - you can enable or disable the plugin and it won't affect how the post images are displayed in your browser.

By the way, the Morphing RSS Host Mode option must also be disabled.

What happens when you disable the plugin?

If the images have disappeared from your server, it is definitely because the Keep downloaded images feature was inadvertently disabled when you changed the default settings. The documentation explicitly warns you of this possibility.

Based on what I see, that’s exactly what happened with this image, which should be present in one of your posts: https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Notes-to-Self-by-Mark-OBrien.jpeg

We are currently considering removing the Keep downloaded images option altogether because, unfortunately, some users don't read the documentation before changing the default settings. The plugin is called Pro for a reason – it offers extensive functionality to accommodate various autoblogging strategies. But if you adjust settings without fully understanding their impact, the outcome may be technically predictable yet completely unexpected.

Thanks for the feedback. The impact of the Keep downloaded images setting is actually highlighted in the documentation with a warning icon and a clear explanation of what happens if it's turned off. However, I understand how easy it is to overlook such details, especially for new users.

That said, the situation you're experiencing is quite rare. Normally, the Login to see this link hook is only triggered when a post is actually deleted. However, some plugins and themes may erroneously trigger this hook without actually removing the post, causing the plugin to delete associated media files as if the post had been permanently deleted. This is not standard WordPress behavior, and typically indicates that a third-party plugin or theme is not handling the before_delete_post hook correctly.

We're considering ways to make critical settings like this more prominent, both in the documentation and in the plugin interface itself, to prevent similar issues in the future.

In the plugin interface, this option now has the following warning message. You can see it if you update the plugin core in CyberSEO Pro's General Settings.

Hopefully this will help avoid similar situations in the future.