dragonsanddemons
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06 Aug 2021, 4:29 pm
I can’t seem to figure out how to put pictures in posts. Every time I try to use a URL like I do successfully with videos, it doesn’t come up.
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
06 Aug 2021, 4:34 pm
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
06 Aug 2021, 5:05 pm
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06 Aug 2021, 5:08 pm
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
You used the right tags. Let's see if it works for me.
Edit: I think you used the page's URL instead of the picture file's URL.
06 Aug 2021, 5:17 pm
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
This is the picture's site:
Which you typed inside the image tag.
This is the picture's url from the site:
Which should be in place inside the image tag instead.
To get an image's url... Right-click at the picture you wish to post -- hold press for mobile users until an option pops out.
Then left click or press "Open Image in New Tab".
To go the tab where you can only see the picture -- and then copy it's address, that's the image's url.
Usually, if I decided to post pictures from my own -- I usually just send it to myself in Facebook.
It's temporary, of course, the url will expire and won't give the image display.For a more permanent display, there are some free photo hosting sites available to upload to.
Or, post it in some social media, preferably in private filters where no one can view, then obtain the picture's url with that.
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06 Aug 2021, 5:51 pm
06 Aug 2021, 5:54 pm
I find that the mistake I make most is to use the wrong slash at the end of the tag. If the text were soldiers marching from the left to the right the "slash" should be leaning forward, like against a strong wind, while the "backslash" is leaning over backwards like it is about to fall over. The closing tag MUST have a slash and not a backslash.
It also matters where the picture URL comes from. Some sites don't like it if you use their images and block images being used in other web sites. I know images from wikipedia work fine so I often use those. I also use images from blogs and that usually works. Some shopping sites don't work it seem to work at first but stop working later. Some images from google search only exist in the search results and are gone shortly after that.
you can test with this image from wrongplanet itself:
[ i m g ] h t t p s : / / w r o n g p l a n e t . n e t / w p - c o n t e n t / t h e m e s / w r o n g p l a n e t / i m a g e s / l o g o . p n g [ / i m g ]
should work like this (when you take the spaces out):
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06 Aug 2021, 5:59 pm
Ah, maybe I need to not use my iPad, which only gives me the one “copy” option. My computer is functional but old and slow, so I usually use the iPad.
You have to have somewhere to store them, like when I post pictures I've made or taken they're stored on an account I have.
You can store pictures for free here: https://imgbb.com/
Once you have your picture on that site you can show it off here.
I'd love to see your comics.
Thank you, I’ve bookmarked that site now. This is the only thing resembling social media that I use. I have a Facebook account, but haven’t visited in almost a decade
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06 Aug 2021, 6:07 pm
Looks in preview like that works. I usually use Google Images.
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06 Aug 2021, 6:49 pm
You have to have somewhere to store them, like when I post pictures I've made or taken they're stored on an account I have.
You can store pictures for free here: https://imgbb.com/
Once you have your picture on that site you can show it off here.
I'd love to see your comics.
Thank you, I’ve bookmarked that site now. This is the only thing resembling social media that I use. I have a Facebook account, but haven’t visited in almost a decade
I realized I didn't want a Facebook back when MySpace was the big/same thing.
06 Aug 2021, 6:50 pm
06 Aug 2021, 7:01 pm
Google images is a bit hard to use for this purpose - you might try Bing (I know most people prefer google but it is harder to get the REAL image URL from it).
Here is an image from wikipedia. I found it with google images. The I clicked on the image and I got a bigger version on the right hand side of my screen. I clicked on the image (bigger one) and it took me to the page where that image was. (the wikipedia page). I THEN right clicked on the image and chose "Copy Image Link" (in firefox on my mac laptop).
[ i m g ] h t t p s : / / u p l o a d . w i k i m e d i a . o r g / w i k i p e d i a / c o m m o n s / t h u m b / a / a 5 / F l o w e r _ p o s t e r _ 2 . j p g / 6 6 0 p x - F l o w e r _ p o s t e r _ 2 . j p g [ / i m g ]
Should look like this when you take the spaces out:
06 Aug 2021, 7:42 pm
Yes. It works, and the sign has train on it so it is good.
06 Aug 2021, 8:13 pm
06 Aug 2021, 9:07 pm
07 Aug 2021, 2:34 pm
I think Bing Image Search is easier to use for finding pictures for WP than Google Image Search.
For this image I used Bing Image search.
I searched for
+"flowers" +"wikipedia"
I clicked on the small/thumbnail of this image, then on the bigger version that popped up.
The image URL was now in the "Location" bar at the top of my browser:
I inserted this BBCode into my post:
Giving this:
