After doing some digging and debugging, finally i found out what’s wrong, the main reason of this is because of the theme i using, actually make use of timthumb this library to display resize image on the fly, when i embeded the image into the feed, i actually make use of image url that using this library also.So i change the feed code again and embeded the actual image url.

the feed now is display with image nicely in my netvibes feed block.

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Why am i thinking to do images migration in the first place ? flickr, for the past one year i have a flickr pro account, so most of my blog image is post from flickr, but now i m thinking to unsubscribe this service and to consolidate all the images under my own vps. But more issue appear after i start working on it.

• domain issue, some of the image still pointing on old domain, in stead of current domain
• plugin issue, i use quite a few image plugin before, some of the images path are incorrect
• emotion icons issue, this is one of the feature with a WYSIWG editor plugin, although i have remove this plugin already, but all the emotion icons tag still remaining in the post content
• need to replace flickr image path

the first thing is getting a new images plugin for this blog , after some testing and research , i decided to use NextGEN Gallery , i download the whole database and doing some analysis on local database.

• what need to be patch ? going through all image tag and find out, is this my own flickr image ? or just a external link ? is this old domain image still available ?
• how to patch ? just learn mysql replace function from work, no doubt i need to run a patching sql image by image base on different case
• patching with new feature ? this is the last thing that wasted my whole morning, i forget to patch the images to make use of the new plugin features

Finally one of my biggest goal for this holidays done, i wonder how many more goal can i complete before starting of work ? Another goal which quite troublesome would be changing of this blog theme, i have a choose the theme already but it seem like a lot of rework need to be done.

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When i first started my blog, all the image that i post in my blog , is self host on the same hosting server, it does use up partial of your host bandwidth but at the same time, it bring you some visitors also.  After some time , i decided to use some hosted service for my blog post image and i subscribed Flickr

My reason getting hosted service is because

• reduce my bandwidth usage
• through flickr service might be able to bring in more traffic
• no need to worry about hotlink
• flexible, i can just make use the same image on different platform

Since i become flickr pro, half of my image is still self host ( no time to migrate ) and the other half is hosted by flickr. After one year, it’s almost time to renew my flickr service and i m trying to measure is there a need to renew ? just for this blog post purpose ? Google still bring in visitor for my self host image, but i not sure is flickr bring in extra traffic ?

some site that i found for reference

• How to get traffic from image search engine ?
  
• Image hosting, what is the best option ?

Share with me which method are you using and why ?

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