{"id":1238,"date":"2017-11-16T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2017-11-16T21:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:48:26","slug":"addressing-the-dropbox-link-change-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/addressing-the-dropbox-link-change-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the Dropbox Link Change, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that obviously didn’t work. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

But, I found this page<\/a> that talks about getting around the whole ?raw=1 stuff. I wasn’t convinced that would work, but it was exciting to see the image pop up in the editing field while writing that post. Let’s see what happens, using his “pro tip”.<\/p>\n

Stock link is
\n#https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/co2spt70avy3xz5\/CatherineMaryDraddy.jpg?dl=0<\/p>\n

Modified is
\n#https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CatherineMaryDraddy-1.jpg
\n\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CatherineMaryDraddy-1.jpg\"
\nThat is working in the editor. How’s it look in the post?<\/p>\n

Interesting. It took the modified “pro tip” URL and converted it to one specific to this blog. I’ll take that as a win. I need to figure out how to post code snippets here. It modified the URL that I pasted in above to show the “local” URL, rather than what I actually entered. Not sure how I feel about that, but I’ll take it. Now to look at some old posts to see how I can fix the damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, that obviously didn’t work. \ud83d\ude41 But, I found this page that talks about getting around the whole ?raw=1 stuff. I wasn’t convinced that would work, but it was exciting to see the image pop up in the editing field … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,364,366,228],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geek","tag-blog","tag-broke","tag-dl-dropboxusercontent-com","tag-dropbox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CatherineMaryDraddy-1.jpg?fit=513%2C740&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NxlE-jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1235,"url":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/addressing-the-dropbox-link-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":1238,"position":0},"title":"Addressing the Dropbox Link Change","author":"matthannan","date":"16 November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Found all my old Dropbox file links to be broken now that they made some strange change. 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