I’ve been using pexels.com for my background photos in my pens on Codepen, and every couple of weeks the links stop working and whatever photo I was using disappears from the pexels site. So far, I’ve had to change my portfolio photo twice. Am I supposed to store these photos on some other image hosting site?
Hi,
I personally use an image hosting service such as cloudinary (google it ;)) to store the pictures I use in my pens, works well for me. Not sure but it seems that dropbox is an other good option…
When I follow the link, this shows:
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Also, when I search for the photo again at pexels.com, I cannot find it.
I might just try storing them somewhere if I can’t figure out the issue.
Many sites, especially photo sites, have something in place to keep people from directly liinking to their images, otherwise known as hot linking The more people who hot link to images on their server, the more it burns through their bandwidth which adds up and costs them money. At least Pexels only kills the link…some sites change it to another image with a warning not to use their bandwidth, and others replace the image with rude or gross images.
Best way to go about it is to download the photo and use it from your own webhost…if you dont have one, you can use a free image hosting site. A good one I recommend is http://cloudinary.com/
Oh that makes sense. I’ll download and host for myself from now on. Thanks for the help.
Yup, thought it would help you to know exactly why its happening. Back in the day I learned that lesson the hard way when a nice pic turned into a not so nice pic…my sister called me in a panic when she showed someone my website. Embarrassing!!! LOL
Glad to have helped 