My theme is broken!
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They are images I copied from another site, but so are all my other images. I’m not sure what a 404 error is? Does that mean that it will not correct itself? I’m not sure what to do, I have tried all ideas, and nothing seems to work.
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Try to go on the site these images are linked to and see if it’s still there. Most likely, the images has been removed by the owner.
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It’s possible they have changed something and eliminated hotlinking. Your solution is to download the pictures, upload them in your WordPress.com webspace, and insert them in the blog that way. Hotlinking is generally frowned upon.
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I’m sorry, I’m not sure what you mean. What is hotlinking? I copy and paste, is that what you mean? If that is not how I should do it. Could you explain how to upload?
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Yes you can still access to it except that the owner realized you’re linking the images to your blog, it may have been removed. Hot linking of images are considered to be a bandwidth stealing. How about hosting your own images at flickr or other free site like photobucket?
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I’m not sure how to do that, but I will just take off the images from this site. Thank you for your help.
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or at least leave a link to their site (it’s case sensitive specially from those private sites) or ask permission that you will use their images.
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When you copy and paste, it only LOOKS like you’ve got new images in your blog. What you really have is a window in your blog that looks into his where he’s got the pictures. You’re using him to host the pictures for you. Some people get billed for their bandwidth, and if that is the case, you are costing him money. You can solve that by hosting your images here at WordPress.com using your Upload option, or using Flickr or Photobucket, as K says above.
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It’s right below the Write box. You can’t upload directly from the web, you’ll need to save the image on your computer first.
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Setting up a photobucket.com account is a fairly simple way to use random pics you find on the net without having to download them to your computer and upload them to wordpress.com
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“…photobucket.com account…without having to download them to your computer and upload them to wordpress.com”
–Skipping boring steps is helpful, I’ll try it. Thanks, engtech! How’s the kitten?
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Folks, if it’s still an issue, please follow the suggestions made in this thread. Clear your browser’s cache and do a forced reload of the page that you are looking at.
Actually reading the thread that you post it may help as well. :)
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I’ve done all the above and my sidebars are still out whack in Firefox. Everything looks fine in Internet Exploiter :(
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I am thinking it has to do with the Garland Theme as my other blog Grey’s Anatomy Addicts~Plus is fine.
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Hi, I understand that you can do a force reload or whatever suggestion for the themes to appear properly. The thing is that, not only the owner of the blogs view their own blogs. Our visitors will be turned off to see that our blog is in such a mess. Blog hoppers will never visit our blogs if it doesnt look good. Honestly, Its too messy that other viewers will have a difficult time reading it. Sorry to sound so…. but im just disappointed
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So far I have browsed some of the links on this thread and they all seemed fine at my end.
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Our visitors will be turned off to see that our blog is in such a mess. Blog hoppers will never visit our blogs if it doesnt look good. Honestly, Its too messy that other viewers will have a difficult time reading it. Sorry to sound so…. but im just disappointed
Post to your blog (or add some text to the sidebar) explaining that wordpress.com screwed up, not your fault, refreshing the page might fix it.
It’s a free host. Sometimes things are going to break. It’s annoying, yes, but comfort yourself with the thought that you didn’t buy the CSS upgrade and pay for a broken service with no possibility of a refund ;)
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