Images… imagine if Geodirectory simply used Media Library…

You have tried to help me solve image crisis before but now it is sort of serious

I use Amazon S3 and Cloudfront to manage Media Library Storage

this creates an offsite URL for images

in creating or editing category, and probably elsewhere, adding an image/icon button goes to the media library – doesn’t allow directly entering a URL, and it doesn’t actually use the URL from the Media Library, it prepends the path to the media uploads folder to the url in the media library

media library says this
https://d201234567.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cat_icon_example.png

but it gets saved as
https://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/https://d201234567.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cat_icon_example.png

this renders the plugin almost unusable – and moreover works against prevailing advice to use a CDN to speed up page loading and reduce server loads, two important web master issues.

not allowing the CDN for images added to listings or CPT, while a pain in the nether-regions, is at least functional. but not having a way to add category icons breaks the plugin

currently need to edit the database to use your plugin…

can you provide a functions hack to disable prepending the path (until you address this in core)?

this must be affecting a lot of people and many might not know why icons etc are not showing up.

thanks