When building the weather page for ChaosTexas I included links to several radar and weather reporting stations….I simply put an < img src=….. > tag into the text. What I found was that the image that was at these links when I originally uploaded them stayed on the page. Simply put, the WP routines did not simply put the pic’s link into the page but rather, when the page was originally saved, made a copy of the pic and placed it on the WP servers. I found this out when I noticed that the images were not the current images and the source page had a link to img src=i1.wp.com/chaostexas.com/…. The original “img src” input coding had been modified to point to the pic on another server.
After some reading, I found that this was being done by the JetPack plugin. Apparently JetPack has a plugin Photon which uploads a copy of the photo to the WP server and then uses that to deliver the photo.
While this takes the load off the ChaosTexas server, it causes this problem and reduces the direct control and ownership of the pics.
By turning off JetPack, all seems well. I suppose that just Photon could have been turned off but with this website I’m not sure I really need JetPack.