Letting readers load their own photos

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    alaskarobyne · Member ·

    We are using the Dara theme for a website for a non-profit footrace which gets traffic about one month per year. We are going virtual this year, and want users to be able to post their own selfies of them running/walking the race. Which theme or widgets are best for this?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    We don’t offer a way on WordPress.com for site visitors to upload their own content.

    You have three options here:

    1) People can add pictures in the comments of a post or page. In order to do this they’d need to upload the images to a web server, like the media library of their own WordPress.com site. Then they’ll need to add a HTML link to that image file in a comment on your site: <img src="IMAGE_URL" /> That will embed the image in a comment on your site, but if they ever delete the original image from wherever they’d uploaded it, it will also disappear from your site.

    2) You can use a contact form to let people send you the images. Then you post it to the site. You can use the Jotform contact form to do this: https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/jotform/

    Alternatively you can also have people upload their images to a Google Photos folder. If you connect your site to your Google Photos account that then just gives you a simpler way to insert the images on the site:

    Google Photos

    3) To allow visitors to directly submit content on your site so it posts without your intervention you’d need to us a plugin, and that requires our Business Plan.

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