Clicking on new post photos no longer selects image or title (href tag missing)

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    mountaincoward · Member ·

    I’ve just put a new post into draft with very many photos and, when checking the preview, noticed that individual photos can’t be displayed full size/resolution by clicking on them (which they could previously).

    I’d noticed as I loaded the photos that the html section for the photos looked very short and, on checking against an older, already posted post, the ‘a-href’ tag info is missing from the html around the photos.

    Has there been a change to post editing which I’ve missed somewhere?

    If I knew what information I needed to put in the a-href tag, I’d have a go at coding it in on shorter posts but there are a LOT of photos in the latest draft post.

    An example of the old html is:

    “<img src=”https://mountaincowardadventures.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/linn-of-quoich.jpg?w=510″ alt=”Linn Of Quoich” width=”510″ height=”346″ class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-8808″ />”

    while tonight’s just has:

    “<img src=”https://mountaincowardadventures.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/storr-cathedral-old-man-gorilla.jpg?w=510″ alt=”Storr, Cathedral, Old Man, Gorilla” width=”510″ height=”342″ class=”alignnone size-large wp-image-8924″ />”

    Can anyone explain what’s changed and whether it has changed officially and for the future?

    Thanks, Carol.

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    mountaincoward · Member ·

    Me again – not sure what’s happened with my 2 examples above as the a-href tag went missing out of the examples too!

    The older posts have:

    <a href="https://mountaincowardadventures.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/linn-of-quoich.jpg"><img src="https://mountaincowardadventures.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/linn-of-quoich.jpg?w=510" alt="Linn Of Quoich" width="510" height="346" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-8808" /></a>

    while the new one in draft just has:

    <img src="https://mountaincowardadventures.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/storr-cathedral-old-man-gorilla.jpg?w=510" alt="Storr, Cathedral, Old Man, Gorilla" width="510" height="342" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-8924" />

    Hope this works this time!
    Carol.

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    hoakley · Member ·

    This seems to have occurred round about 16 November 2015, probably with the introduction of the new editor.
    I have had to spend a long time today editing all the images that I have posted since the change, to revert them to the correct HTML, and have even posted an apology to my readers (quite a few of my posts include paintings, which have to use the ‘old’ style to be usable).
    I have no idea who thought this was a good idea, but it now requires that I edit most of my articles in source before posting. I hope it changes back soon – this is getting very frustrating!
    Howard at eclecticlight.co

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    mountaincoward · Member ·

    Thanks Howard – bit disappointed not to get any official answer on this one as obviously something’s been changed. Having to code manually for all my photos is definitely going to be a pain!
    Carol.

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    hoakley · Member ·

    I have put this in the category of ‘unexpected cucumbers’ in this post.
    Thankfully I have worked out a simpler solution, as I use MarsEdit for composing my posts. But there should be an option for the old style, surely.
    Howard.

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