Adding images from Google when posting by mail no longer works?
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For 2 years I’ve been posting via email. I store my images on Google+ and when writing, open the image, copy the image location, and paste it into the body text. It has worked perfectly. This week, it stopped working. Posts look fine on my machines running Firefox, but on Chrome, Explorer, or iPhone, images are replaced by a string of gibberish. Now, I could just cut and paste the whole image into a post, but that eats up a lot of room at WordPress. Any ideas?
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Hi there,
I checked your recent posts and the images are showing up there just fine for me (in Chrome, Firefox, and on my iPhone). For example, I see both images in this test post you made:
https://lokispeaks.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/argh-more-test/
Are you still having trouble seeing the images in that post or another on your blog? If so, please make a screenshot of what you see in one of the browsers where it isn’t working.
You can upload screenshots to your Media Library under Media > Add New in your dashboard, or you can use an online service like Snaggy. That way I can see the problem that you’re seeing on your end with those images.
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Things look right now because I went back edited the posts, cutting and pasting in the images, rather than links to them. If it misbehaves again I’ll get a screenshot.
Doesn’t putting images in the Media Library use up a lot of one’s allotted space. Having the images at Google and just referencing them uses hardly any space.
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Ah ok, thanks for explaining! I didn’t see that the post had been edited to fix that.
Posting by email is designed to handle images that are attached to or inserted into your emails, and upload those images to your media library. That will take up space in your library, but it’s the most reliable way to include images in your posts. (It will also ensure the images keep working — If those Google images are ever removed from Google or moved to a new location there, they might break on your blog.) If you’re afraid of them taking up too much space, we have a page about Image Optimization with tips for making your images look good without being big files.
However, I can also help with posting these Google images by email: When you paste a plain link to the image, that’s seen as a regular link, so it’s turned into a link in your post instead of being embedded as an image. One way around that is to use HTML like this in your email, instead:
<img src="LINK_TO_THE_IMAGE">That way, when you send the post by email, that HTML will be used to embed that image instead of just including a link to it.
Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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All right, I tried that, sending a test post via email and specifying the photo location as instructed. It did not work. I have left the failed test up at the top of the blog. It doesn’t look right even on my computer. Looking at the failed post in edit mode and viewing the html, I can see that what I typed is NOT what got encoded in the html. What the text editor made of what I typed is
<img src=”https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dF2_Lj_lW_KE40GaTftH8TrY2GN6sdOdENOasevLP4w=w938-h747-no“>
It garbled the beginning and end of the code.
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Sorry. This is what it put in. I am adding some quotes around it because when I posted the above comment, WP corrected the string in the comment posting, but that is NOT what shows in the editor! I hope this shows up
“””” <img src=”https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dF2_Lj_lW_KE40GaTftH8TrY2GN6sdOdENOasevLP4w=w938-h747-no“> “”””
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Hi there,
I checked out your test post here:
I see what you mean about it getting garbled: It looks like your email client is converting the < and > characters to < and >. That prevents them from being used as HTML so the images won’t work.
What email client do you use to send those emails? Does it have a plain text v. rich text option when you write your emails? (If it does, please try switching between plain and rich text when you write the email.)
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Hi folks, let me chime in! :)
I just tried this via Gmail and it turns out, the images won’t be embedded unless you change from the default rich text mode to plain text while composing an email.
To change modes, see this screenshot:
https://cloudup.com/cjUsabsuNf7Once done, use this code to embed the image:
<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dF2_Lj_lW_KE40GaTftH8TrY2GN6sdOdENOasevLP4w=w938-h747-no">I tried this on Gmail following Rachel’s suggestion, @aggiebot5 you can try this on your email service as well in case it’s a different one. :)
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Gmail doesn’t seem to offer a rich text toggle. BUT it appears that Chrome correctly formats outgoing messages. If I use Chrome, things appear to work just fine.
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