Help with photos
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Hello,
I have a daily photo blogg at http://sarasotadailyphoto.wordpress.com/ that I really enjoyed for a while but got very fristraghted with because the links in my photos wouldn’t work. At first everything was fine, I was putting my large format photos on Flickr and linking them from my blogg, the links worked fine. Then I noticed that new links weren’t working anymore, no matter how many times I edited, it would not follow the link to Flickr it would just link to the same size photo on back on my wordpress blogg. This was very aggravating!
I want people to be able to link to a larger format photo but what I was doing wasn’t working. Unfortionatly I just got aggravated and gave up rather than asking for help. I really enjoyed doing the blogg and want to start again so I’m asking for help now.
I also often want to do more than one photo a day with a larger feature photo and a few thumbnails that all link to larger format photos, I’ve seen this a few times http://www.greenvilledailyphoto.com/ and really like it. But since I can’t even get my larger photos to link right, I have no clue as how to do this. I’ve written Denton of http://www.greenvilledailyphoto.com/ but thought I should ask here as well.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Explorer Dave
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Are you using the Visual editor, or the Code editor? The instructions for doing this will be different depending on which you’re using.
If you are using the Visual editor, just grab the URL of the image a Flickr and follow the FAQ instructions:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/how-do-i-link-to-other-pictures/You can adjust the size of the image using the image icon, and when you’re done, click on the image, then click on the LINK icon, and put in the original Flickr URL. That will mean the image is clickable and will take you to the image’s Flickr page.
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I notice on your blog the average size of the pix is around 440x330pixels and therefore the file size is reasonably small, so that your blog doesn’t take an eternity to download.
Perhaps another way for you to view a larger version of your pix, without having to open a Flickr account, is to increase the pixel-size of your image, but not by too much. What will then happen when you upload this slightly larger image ( as full size, not thumbnail) into the new post you are writing, is that the system will crop that image just a little bit, so that it fits into the blog post space, and then a hand will appear when you hover your mouse-pointer over that image. This means you can click onto that image, and it will open up a new browser window, so that the image can be viewed full-size. I assume you have image resizing software; if not, let me know.
Also, if you like to have a little bit of info. to go with that hand, like in the greenville blog, here’s how you do it:
In Write Post, scroll down to the image upload area. Browse for the pix you wish to upload, and in the Title box directly underneath that, type in just a few words (you can’t write forever, unfortunately). But, then, I’m assuming you’re a freebie, like me. If you’re not, you can add alt= extra text, as much as you want (without overdoing it) in your blog template. Here is a link to help get you started on this aspect: http://wordpress.org/search/alt%3D+text; items 6, 8 and 9 in particular.
Good luck! ;o}
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It works like that? In my experience it doesn’t crop, it allows the images to overlap the sidebars, driving the sidebars to the bottom of the page, or it cuts off the images. What template have you found where it works like that?
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Hi raincoaster, It works on my template. Click on my name and it will take you to my blog; its column-width is 480px. Even an image 470px wide will get cropped. Yet, when I click onto the image, it brings it up full-size in a new browser window!f Go figure! ;o}
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That is unique to Daydream as far as I know, but a very cool feature. Of course, it’d be just like WP.com to have put this on all our blogs and not tell us for a week or two. In fact, them making those changes could be what’s behind all the problems people have been having linking to pages and files.
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Oh, raincoaster, its been like that since I started my blog in June07. So what I have done, to avoid this happening in future as I like my images to be complete, not cropped, is to resize them to around 420/425px, which fits in beautifully to the column-width and nothing gets cropped! Yay! I can’t comment about the problem you mention as I’ve not been having it (touch wood!).
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Wait, doh! My bad, I misunderstood. Some themes crop (Dusk does, the one I’m using) and some just let it overspill. I thought you were saying it autosized them to fit. Wouldn’t THAT be nice? But the autoclick feature is not one I’m familiar with; if you link to file, it will always do that though, even if they’re not cropped. Are you saying you don’t link them to anything and the link gets put in automatically?
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Wait, doh! My bad, I misunderstood. Some themes crop (Dusk does, the one I’m using) and some just let it overspill. I thought you were saying it autosized them to fit. Wouldn’t THAT be nice? But the autoclick feature is not one I’m familiar with; if you link to file, it will always do that though, even if they’re not cropped. Are you saying you don’t link them to anything and the link gets put in automatically?
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When you click on it it goes to a bigger image. That doesn’t happen unless you Link to File or Link to Page in my experience. Are you saying you don’t do that but if your images are too big it does that automatically?
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From the FAQs a reference for maximum sizes of images in the blogging space by theme http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/how-big-can-my-images-be/
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Thanks all for your help.
raincoaster I went to the FAQ and followed the instructions exactly, thank you for that link. However I inserted links for all four of the photos I just posted and when I went back to check NONE of the photo links are working. The text link is working fine, but not the photo links!
I can’t figure this. I started the Blogg Jan 1, everything worked fine, I kept linking the same way by inserting my Flickr links but that seemed to stop working on Feb 15 and they just linked back to the blogg, even though nothing that I did changed and I kept trying to insert the Flickr links. Now even though I inserted the Flickr links, they link to nothing, but my text link works fine!
I don’t understand this.
Dave
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When consulting the theme reviews I found this re: Kubrick and DayDream.
“ Kubrick is the WordPress default template, and while it must have been great in it’s day, I can’t stand the small font and how it squishes large images to fit into the main page or sidebar.”
“ Day Dream: If you’re worried about looking good at 640×480 then Daydream is the theme for you. Having the sidebar widgets below the posts instead of beside is good, except that it should be two columns instead of three. The sidebar text wraps too much, and if the words are too big they will overlap the text beside them.”
http://internetducttape.com/tools/wordpress/wordpress-theme-reviews/
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David,
i took a look at your blog and i see the issue you’re having with the photos. The source for your page doesn’t have any links attached to the pictures (i know, you already know that).
When i link to pictures from Flickr, i usually copy and paste all the code that Flickr gives in the first option. It looks like this:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/judyb12/960433674/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1420/960433674_a6f48f4f9f_m.jpg" width="240" height="222" alt="26July07-Sparsholt" /></a>I paste all this into the “Code” editor (not the “Visual” editor), then switch back to the “Visual” tab to monkey around with the placement. I haven’t had any problems doing it this way.
Give this a try, if it makes sense, and let us know if it works for you.
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More info:
Your images need to have the
<a href="http...">and</a>bits of code included. That’s the HTML that tells the browser that this is a link. Currently, your images only have the<img src="http...">part, which just calls the image but not the link. -
Tried pasting the code and I got a squished photo on my blog! Tried several other things but the only one that seems to work for me is a text link. At least for now those are working fine.
Thanks for the help.
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One other trick I saw on a WordPress photoblog recently is this. The photo was of a size that in my browser, IE7 (but not using it at full-screen size), showed as overlapping the sidebar on the right. Directly underneath that pix, on the lefthand side, was a thumbnail of the same image that, when clicking onto it, it opened up in a new browser window and showed as a much bigger image. For the life of me, ‘though, I can’t remember which blog it is, but think it may have been PhotoBuffet, bonniebruno.wordpress.com (a couple of days ago at least, on an image that looks like a collage of flowers and other things).
Any image that is uploaded into the post editor has default settings of ‘size thumbnail, link to file’ radio buttons chosen. I always upload the image as ‘full-size’ and keep the link to ‘file’. These are the settings you see against the image before you send it to the editor. Hence, for my blog, which is a one-column 480px wide layout, anything larger than 480px, or even 470px as indicated previously here, will get cropped. You then have the ability to click onto that image to see the full-size version in a new browser window. In this way, you don’t need a Flickr account!
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