Adding images: computer or Flickr?
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Hi, I’m new to blogging, and it’s fun! I have already searched the FAQ, help, and forums for the info I’m seeking. Is there a difference between adding images from my computer or from Flickr? What I’m getting at is, if I upload from the computer, I assume I am embedding the image, but if I upload an image url from Flickr, am I linking the image? Or is there no difference. I used to have a web site, and it took less space to link to an image rather than embed it.
Thanks. Still learning. Some of the blog controls are quite a mystery.
blue heron
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Yes, if you insert an image from your flickr account you are “linking to it” – hot-linking actually.
If you upload your images here to your wordpress media library, when images are resized to be placed in your posts (thumbnail, medium, and I believe large) they are actually resized and resampled. When images are linked to from flickr, wordpress relies on the browser to do the resizing and the quality will be lower. The wordpress resizing/resampling is NOT as good as what you would get by using an actual image editing program, but it is better that what you will get when resizing an image which is hosted on flickr.
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Also, especially if your images are large, if you link to flickr or other image storage site, it takes time for the images to open there, then show from that site to then display in wordpress (?? correct terms??).
For folk with slow internet connections that means readers have to wait longer to see you pictures.
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And if you use Monotone, you’ll find that it’s designed to work with images hosted here; it does not work so well with hotlinked images.
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Thanks very much for your replies, everyone. It appears that hot-linking is not really the better idea. Putting images into a WordPress media library makes more sense.
I’ll say this, too: I tried hot-linking an image, and all that would show on the test post was the url, and not the image itself. I tried everything to get that image to show, and it wouldn’t. Any ideas on that?
So much for linking! Thanks again, everyone. Blogging is a much bigger undertaking than I thought. Almost like learning a new language.
Happy day,
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Re hotlinking:
If you use the html editor, the code for an image (in its simplest form) is this:
<img src="URL_HERE"></a>
If you use the visual editor, you click the “Add an Image” button, click “From URL”, paste the URL there (click “Link to Image” if you want the published image to link to the full-size original when clicked), click “Insert into Post”.If you did either of those correctly, then another possibility is that you didn’t use the URL of an image but the URL of a webpage with the image in it (some sites don’t give you access to the image alone).
But as was well explained above, it’s always better to upload the images in your own blog.
And please note that it’s more helpful if you paste the exact URL of your blog when asking questions here – or if you link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky 8 Things to Know.
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Thank you, panag….
I was using the visual editor, but wasn’t executing all the commands necessary to get the photo to show. But yes, I see it is better to embed the images.
As for pasting the URL of my blog in a question post, eek, I thought I did that! I’ll pay better attention next time.
There it is, a bit belated: (http://www.blueheron53.wordpress.com)Thanks again,
blue heron
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