How do I embed a web link so it autoload with the page instead of being clickable (invisible link)?
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My site, k2mit.com, is hosted at WP. I added a link but it is just that, a link. I want the link to be hidden and have it pull up the content when the WP page I created loads.
It created some HTML but when you view the page, it says, “Edit”
I could not find this in the Codex. I also could not find the follow last problem I have in the Codex:
Secondly, I want to upload a sky camera image via FTP and have my site load the picture automatically. Is this possible? I found how you can upload a picture but that seems static. I want to upload every 5 minutes. What is the location to put it in, what is the FTP address and please point me to anything else I need.
Thank you very much from a new Upgraded site.
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I think the page you’re asking about is this one:
http://k2mit.com/weather-station-data/
What you’re wanting to add is called embed. We can accept most HTML embeds provided by third parties, with some restrictions, but right now we don’t have an oEmbed for weatherlink.com the way we do with YouTube or Twitter (where a URL will become an embed automatically.)
I don’t immediately see embed codes provided from WeatherLink, but as a WeatherLink user, you might be able to find a sharing code that provides HTML for embedding purposes. Copy and paste that HTML into your page’s text editor if it is available.
Secondly, I want to upload a sky camera image via FTP and have my site load the picture automatically. Is this possible? I found how you can upload a picture but that seems static. I want to upload every 5 minutes. What is the location to put it in, what is the FTP address and please point me to anything else I need.
On WordPress.com, we do not allow FTP access into your site’s files. For this kind of feature, a self-hosted site running the WordPress.org free software is a better environment:
However, if you are willing to upload that ever-changing file onto another image hosting service, you can add the image to a WordPress.com page via URL, and as that URL updates the page will update as well.
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Weatherlink.com is just one page. I want to embed a URL and have it pull up that page.
The URL is
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/k2mit/index.php view=main&headers=1 (all one line).
Is this possible? It seems like basic functionality I am surprised it is not supported. Isn’t that what the link page and the link button is supposed to do. It asked me for the URL and a name. When I viewed the page it just said Edit.
Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated.
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The link functionality is meant to add hyperlinks to text or images:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/
It sounds like you started making the link, but didn’t have text or images to add the link to. You saw “Edit” because you’re the site admin, and that’s a quick link to let you edit the page later if you need to.
WordPress can handle embeds for a lot of services, but WeatherLink is just not one of them.
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I hear you but why isn’t there a universal web page that can be shown in a separate page. That would be universal (you just need a URL) and not limit you to the few sites you share with.
Maybe I don’t understand but could you add frame template with a URL that is automatically displayed when the main page is loaded. Does this make sense? If you agree, can you pass along to development team for prioritization?
There is no sharing from weatherlink.com. I wish there was.
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This is the link I want to embed:
http://www.weatherlink.com/user/k2mit/index.php?view=main&headers=0
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There is an HTML tag called iframing that is similar to what you describe. It essentially open up a page within a page.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
However, on WordPress.com we do not allow iframes. All WordPress.com sites operate in a shared environment, and iframes on one site can present a security risk to all the other sites.
I have submitted your request for WeatherLink embeds though. :)
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Thanks. I am now hosted on one of your partner sites (blue in the name).
Does that tag work there? BTW, with proper privileges aren’t the web sites compartmentalized from a security standpoint?
Can you let me know when you support Weatherlink? Thanks for referring that.
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On a self-hosted site with Bluehost you should be able to add that iframe tag to a page or post’s body. This will let you embed the content from that WeatherLink page.
There appear to be a number of other weather station plugins available also:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=weather+station
I’ll report back here if we can offer embed support WeatherLink.
BTW, with proper privileges aren’t the web sites compartmentalized from a security standpoint?
Yes, the sites are compartmentalized from one another, but allowing iframes will also allow in outside sites’ code, which we won’t be able to monitor for potential threats. Theoretically these can be used to attack WordPress.com itself, and all the sites we host share the WordPress.com resources.
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