Remove Broken Images

About this plugin

Questions

I installed and activated the plugin. Now what?

That’s it! There is no configuration necessary. The plugin adds a compact bit of JavaScript that detects if an image is returning a 404 error, and removes its HTML code from displaying on the page.

Does this plugin delete the image code from my page/post in the WordPress database?

No, version 1 does not make any changes whatsoever to your database. It also does not remove the missing image file’s URL from the HTML that is sent to the user’s web browser; it removes the tags from the DOM (Document Object Model) after the page has been loaded, using JavaScript, to prevent “broken image” icons, extra white space, and links/captions associated with those missing images from displaying.

How can I redirect to the home page when an image is missing on a post?

The r34rbi_missing_image jQuery hook (added in version 1.4.0) allows you to modify the plugin’s behavior with custom code, whenever a missing image is encountered. It is used by the r34rbi_redirect_on_missing_image PHP filter (also added in version 1.4.0) to easily redirect to the home page in this situation, by adding this snippet of PHP code to your theme:

add_filter('r34rbi_redirect_on_missing_image', '__return_true');

You can replace '__return_true' with a custom callback function to change the redirect URL to something other than your site’s home page.