I checked and all the images are hosted on googleusercontent.com which is a subdomain that Google uses to hold third party content. The images are probably getting rate limited, as the system serving them was designed to prioritize Google content and not user generated. The practice is usually called hotlinking and that’s why the server started to rate limit. I recommend that you try and host the images on your own Wordpress. Otherwise, maybe throwing Cloudflare in front of your site as a caching layer might be an easier solution.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google as an engineer, but I’m very far away from this system.)
So I’d put the images on Wordpress except that would require using their editor to do so, and their editor is a walking dumpster fire. I could try to reclaim the old editor by using a plug-in but they want $300/year for that, which seems pretty extreme (I’d do it if I couldn’t find any other solution I suppose, it’s not THAT much money, it just stings quite a lot). Cloudflare at $5/month seems better and potentially gives better performance. Can anyone confirm whether this would be a good idea?
Is the Wordpress editor so unusably bad that it’s unbearable (like >$300/year of annoyance) to use it just for swapping in the images? (That is: do what you do now, except that after pasting it in from the Google doc, you go through and do whatever you need to do to change each image from a hotlink to googleusercontent.com into a thing hosted by Wordpress—which in an ideal world might just mean copying each image and pasting it on top of itself, though no doubt Wordpress have found a way to make it much more painful than that.)
What does the $300 plugin do that “classic block” doesn’t do? I just edit my posts inside a single classic block, which seems to be identical to the old WordPress editor, including the ability to directly edit the html.
I’m sorry Zvi, but I’ve now realized that you are running on a wordpress.com subdomain. You won’t be able to use Cloudflare, unless you upgrade to the Wordpress business plan (£20 a month) so that you can install plugins.
I don’t have any simple and effective ideas for what you could do, other than putting a call to action for somebody who has more Wordpress experience to help you migrate to a more sustainable setup.
I checked and all the images are hosted on googleusercontent.com which is a subdomain that Google uses to hold third party content. The images are probably getting rate limited, as the system serving them was designed to prioritize Google content and not user generated. The practice is usually called hotlinking and that’s why the server started to rate limit. I recommend that you try and host the images on your own Wordpress. Otherwise, maybe throwing Cloudflare in front of your site as a caching layer might be an easier solution.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google as an engineer, but I’m very far away from this system.)
So I’d put the images on Wordpress except that would require using their editor to do so, and their editor is a walking dumpster fire. I could try to reclaim the old editor by using a plug-in but they want $300/year for that, which seems pretty extreme (I’d do it if I couldn’t find any other solution I suppose, it’s not THAT much money, it just stings quite a lot). Cloudflare at $5/month seems better and potentially gives better performance. Can anyone confirm whether this would be a good idea?
Is the Wordpress editor so unusably bad that it’s unbearable (like >$300/year of annoyance) to use it just for swapping in the images? (That is: do what you do now, except that after pasting it in from the Google doc, you go through and do whatever you need to do to change each image from a hotlink to googleusercontent.com into a thing hosted by Wordpress—which in an ideal world might just mean copying each image and pasting it on top of itself, though no doubt Wordpress have found a way to make it much more painful than that.)
If it’s literally that, then it’s on the borderline. If it’s harder, then yeah, it’s that bad.
What does the $300 plugin do that “classic block” doesn’t do? I just edit my posts inside a single classic block, which seems to be identical to the old WordPress editor, including the ability to directly edit the html.
I’m sorry Zvi, but I’ve now realized that you are running on a wordpress.com subdomain. You won’t be able to use Cloudflare, unless you upgrade to the Wordpress business plan (£20 a month) so that you can install plugins.
I don’t have any simple and effective ideas for what you could do, other than putting a call to action for somebody who has more Wordpress experience to help you migrate to a more sustainable setup.