My image widget URL keeps deleting.

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  kpopalypse · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 6:13 am

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  My image widget url keeps deleting. When editing an image widget, whenever I press return or hit “save” on the image url, it clears the text field completely.

  Just a temporary bug or a bigger problem?

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  justpi · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:00 am

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  Probably none of the two. What URL are you trying to use?

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  kpopalypse · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:19 am

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  I’m using a URL from my own wordpress file library:

  

  It has worked before!

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  kpopalypse · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:20 am

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  Using a different image URL doesn’t seem to affect it btw.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:24 am

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  Cut off everything after .jpg and see what happens.

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  justpi · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:25 am

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  Image URLs always end with the filetype extension (.jpg or .png etc). The “?w=160” bit isn’t part of the image URL.
  To get the correct URL for an image you have already uploaded to your blog, you go to Media > Library, click Edit under the thumbnail, copy the URL from the “File URL” field of the Save module.

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  kpopalypse · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:36 am

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  Dropping the ?w=160 at the end made no difference.

  Copying from “file URL” did fix the problem! Thanks!

  I’ve got no idea why, though? As dropping the ?w=160 and using the file URL are exactly the same address!?!?

  Still – hey, it works now. Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 9:21 am

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  Interesting. It SHOULD have worked. Thanks for reporting that.