Add images to replies

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  port4u · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 11:29 am

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  So many times I want to share an images as part of a response. I woudl like WordPress to add the ability to insert images in replies.

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  galois · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 12:10 pm

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  I woudl like WordPress to add the ability to insert images in replies.

  Yes. Copy & paste the URL of the image into the comment/reply.

  Example on my blog:
  http://trasnochada.es/2015/04/12/gatas-tres-diferentes/#comments (at the bottom)

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  port4u · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 9:21 pm

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  That isn’t what I mean. I could not add a link to an image that is not online. I want to upload an image into a reply from my hard drive, like you can in Facebook.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 9:26 pm

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  I could not add a link to an image that is not online. I want to upload an image into a reply from my hard drive, like you can in Facebook.

  That’s not possible.

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  port4u · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 9:31 pm

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  I know it isn’t possible – yet. I was suggestiong that WordPress add that feature. I thought a suggestions belong in the ideas section. This would be a good feature to have.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 9:34 pm

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  Understood but I wouldn’t hold my breath while waiting if I were you.

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  port4u · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 9:36 pm

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  I won’t. I don’t like looking purple :-) Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 9:43 pm

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  The issue is related to posting porno and other spam. Imagine what it would be like if every spammer and flesh peddler could submit comments with images in them to our blogs. Oy vey!

  As the Admin of a blog you can moderate your comments and invite your commenters to provide links to images hosted somewhere online, and then approve and display only the ones you choose to. You can do the same with comment embeds like YouTube videos and tweets from Twitter too https://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/embeds/

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  port4u · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 10:02 pm

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  I think images and text can be treated the same way. It isn’t a problem posting and image along with text in a response on Facebook. Text and images are both digital data. On WordPress I can select who can comment. I can block, hide or approve text, and if there was an image included that would come or go with the post. I am not understaning your concern.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 10:03 pm

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  I’m not concerned. I simply posted what I knew above.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 11:29 pm

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  Upload it to a safe sharing site like Flickr or photobucket. The reason you can’t upload images directly to the comments on a blog here is that malware can be embedded in images, and it would enable people to hack your blog. So, if you want to put images in your comments, get a flickr or photobucket account and use the URL.

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  galois · Member · Apr 18, 2015 at 11:58 pm

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  I want to upload an image into a reply from my hard drive, like you can in Facebook.

  Mmm, ok, I don’t have Facebook. ;)

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  port4u · Member · Apr 19, 2015 at 12:58 pm

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  to raincoster. I am sure WordPress and Facebook are both able to screen images so we don’t get malwear worms or viruses from images posted to their sites. Scans are taken care of at the back end. Malicious imbedded content in images comes from other sources.