doesnt meet security guidelines?
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so what do i do? other pictures have worked but the ones of me isn’t and it’s really annoying.
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See what Matt just said. Make sure the name ends in the proper format: ie blahblahfilename.jpg or blahblahfilename.png or whatever. It needs the end bit on it.
And when you report problems, please tell us the name of the file in full.
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Well, the repeated questions may have been annoying but the answers were helpful–I was trying to upload a .bmp. I’ll just save it as a .jpg. Thanks, and glad to know about the link to the file upload types.
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We had a thread a few days ago and we were reminded that *.bmp’s were not allowed.
Gotta admit that I would love to know why. Never heard of a security risk concerning *.bmp files. I’ve wondered if it’s a filesize issue as *.tifs are not allowed either. But yet *.gifs and *.pngs are. Hmmm…..
edit: I noted that *.txt got removed again. It was in that list a long while back.
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Yeah, I would imagine .bmps are banned because of their unfeasible size. You can still upload .txt files, but for some reason they don’t want us to know that. I had a few ‘disappear’ a while back.
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I’m having the same problem. It’s a flash video file about 700k in size. As I see it I should be able to post whatever the hell I want… being the site admin. It shouldn’t matter how insecure the filetype is or how big it is. It should just assume, as the admin, I know what I’m doing… now I have to manually FTP it, which is a pain in the ass.
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You cannot embed flash into wordpress.com blogs.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/can-i-add-flash-video-embed-other-media/
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you’re talking about being site admin and FTP, so i think you’re at the wrong site…
Read Me First
7 Things to Know Before Posting in the WordPress.com Forums
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When creating and uploading an image to wordpress.com here are some basics worth remembering:
(1) Be sure your image is one of these file types – jpg, jpeg, png, gif (Note that bmp’s cannot be uploaded due to size).
(2) Do not use anything in the file name except letters and numbers. Use no spaces, no dashes, no underscores, or any type of special character or punctuation, except for the dot between the file name and the extension. Also make sure that the file name has an extension.
(3) If you are using iPhoto, then use the “export” function under the file menu to export the image to your desktop before trying to upload it to WordPress.
(4) If you are not using the image in thumbnail size, make sure that the image is not too wide for the post area in your particular theme. You can find maximum image widths for the most popular themes here: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/how-big-can-my-images-be/
(5) Optimize your images so that your blog pages will load faster. See http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/optimise-your-images/
(6) How to upload pictures in posts: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/how-do-i-upload-pictures/
(7) How do I get text to go around a picture: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/29/how-do-i-get-text-to-go-around-a-picture/
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