Frowning pictures?????
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I entered a blog post last night with 2 pictures and they were fine last night. Today I was adding a post and I went to view it and the pictures from last night were turned into frowning faces! what is going on? Did I do something to mess it up? How do I fix it?
please help
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I can see the frowning faces on http://momebof3.wordpress.com/.
It’s not a wordpress.com issue, because those images are hosted on etsy. What I would guess has happened is that you’ve hotlinked some images from etsy and they have redirected your link to this sad face. You need to upload those images to your wordpress.com blog rather than linking to etsy’s version.
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umm how would I do that? I am still learning all of this so I am really slow and confused and frustrated!
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Go to your dashboard. Start writing a new post. At the very bottom of the page, there’s a section where you can upload.
Click the “Browse” button and that’ll pop up a window where you can select the file from your hard drive that you want to upload.
Once you’ve done that, it gives you various options and the ability to send it to the editor (that is where you write the post). If you click the edit link, you can get the URL of the image (or file) that you’ve uploaded. You can then replace those hotlinked URLs with the URL from your wp.com account.
Or you can upload your pics to somplace like photobucket or imageshack. They allow hotlinking.
PS: If this isn’t clear, I’m sure Judy or TT will be along to translate what I said :)
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thanks I did try that earlier and there was some sort of error so I am waiting to try again in a bit!
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/nod to katm and wank
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/
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