image links wonky?

I did. I did this like 3 or 4 times. Maybe more. Deleted EVERYTHING. Listing, dumped trash, deleted image in media, deleted image on CPAnel. Started fresh every time. Same thing keeps happening consistently.

Ok, maybe I’m doing the image link wrong. I’m reading the instructions over and over and I’m not sure I’m doing it right. I am importing new images, so there’s no ID, so I leave that out. So this is how I am doing the image link:
https://californiafieldtrips.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/aquarium-of-the-bay-opt.jpeg|Aquarium of the Bay|Aquarium of the Bay

Please let me know if this is correct or not.

Well I tried editing the image link like you said. Nothing changed. Everything is exactly the same, whether I upload the image beforehand or after. What now?

I’m looking at the documentation on this subject with a different understanding now and I see where I got confused. The wording seems unclear in places to me. If I could suggest some changes?

For example, on the import/export section, this part:

“About filenames:

URL

To upload new images, use the filename like this:
filename.extension
If you already have uploaded the image to an existing listing, the file URL will be shown like this:
https://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/year/month/filename.extension Note: It is not possible to reference images in the Media Library in this way. This URL is only shown as an example.”

I read through that prior to importing and did not at all get out of that what Guust explained much better to me above. Because I didn’t get the significance of what I was reading, I didn’t see it was what was causing much of my problems.

I think more clear wording there plus specific examples (ALWAYS so helpful to have visuals and specific examples for people like me to wrap our brains around what you are trying to explain) would be extremely helpful and save confusion and back and forth like this? Just a suggestion.