Image Widget Not Working

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  urbanlivingbyalia · Member · May 12, 2014 at 9:08 pm

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  Hi there,

  I can’t get the image widget to work properly. I followed your directions for getting the image URL (adding the image to my media library, then clicking edit to obtain the link). But whenever I try to use that URL in the image widget menu and save the settings, the widget just refreshes itself and clears all of the fields. I’ve tried this with two different images in the past 24 hours and haven’t been able to get it to work. Please help!

  Cheers,
  Alia

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  gorelikboris · Member · May 14, 2014 at 8:57 am

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  Dear Alia,

  I assume that the directions you were following are the ones described here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/ .
  Your blog already contains one image widget that seems to function correctly (I’m talking about the one that presents this image: http://urbanlivingbyalia.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/at-home_horz_bw.jpg). Did you try to add another one? If you did, please let me know which image you are talking about so I can verify the problem.

  All the best

  Boris Gorelik

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  urbanlivingbyalia · Member · May 14, 2014 at 1:07 pm

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  Hey Boris,

  I was able to figure it out, thanks. Turns out I was using the permalink, not the actual URL for the photo.

  Thanks,
  Alia

  ps: the instructions on the WordPress.com forum are a bit outdated: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/
  At least, the photos in those instructions don’t match what my interface looks like.

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  gorelikboris · Member · May 14, 2014 at 2:44 pm

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  I’m happy you were able to figure it out.
  Thank you very much for pointing out the outdated documentation. We will update it shortly.