Image widget not displaying picture

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  naimavanswol · Member · May 29, 2013 at 9:39 am

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  Image widget is not displaying the picture on my sidebar. It’s just showing a small question mark. Help!
  Thanks.
  Naima

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 29, 2013 at 3:56 pm

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  Hi there, the image widget’s URL field takes an image path that ends with an image extension, like .jpg, .gif, or .png.

  Your image URL looks like this:

  https://plus.google.com/photos/108360187987664542028/albums/5881835771733055025?banner=pwa

  Also, when I visit the above URL, I see an error message that I don’t have permission to view the album, so it looks like it’s not set to public. You could try setting the album to public and right-click the image to try to get a path that ends in .jpg or .png, and see if that works. Better yet, you could upload the image to your media library in your WordPress.com site, and use the URL from there.

  Let me know how it goes!

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  naimavanswol · Member · May 31, 2013 at 12:04 am

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  Thanks for getting back to me. I changed the link to a wordpress library one and I still can’t see it. Is there something wrong with the widget, itself?
  Thanks again.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · May 31, 2013 at 1:03 pm

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  Hi there, the image path needs to end with a graphic extension, such as .jpg, .gif, or .png.

  Your current image path looks like this:

  http://pittsburghrules.com/?attachment_id=1873

  The direct path to the image is:

  

  I put this URL into the widget for you and the image now displays.

  Just let me know if you need further help.

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  naimavanswol · Member · Jun 1, 2013 at 3:47 am

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  Thank you! It looks great.