Pictures disappear regularly, WP answer is useless
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The pictures I had uploaded on my blog keep disappearing. I wrote to WordPress and the answer was: “Try to log out, clear your browser cache, restart your browser and then try again on those pages where you saw missing images.” In good faith I did that. The result? 1. It had NO effect to the missing pictures; 2. With the cache cleaned, all my saved passwords and authenticated sessions were lost.
So: I had a problem, asked WordPress, they answered but their answer was mistaken or useless, or even worse.
So: how do I get to post pictures on the WP blog? Is is possible or not?
I don’t have a domain name, but WP says you CAN post pictures without a domain name.
Is it true? What can you advise me?
Thank you very much.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Are you uploading the pictures to your Media library from your computer or are you linking to an outside host? If you are uploading the photos, are they still available in your Media library or have they been deleted fromt there, too?
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I don’t like the media system on wordpress either, try this alternative:
Sign up to Photobucket.com
Upload your photos there
Copy the direct link
In new/edit post click the HTML tab
Click the “img” button
Copy the link, press okay
Put in a description, press okayNow click back to the Visual editor and your image will be there. You can edit it (make it smaller, edit description etc.) by clicking it, then clicking the image icon.
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These three return 404-file not found.
http://veone.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/dsc00088-mod-copy-last-last.jpg
http://veone.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/diva-who-wouldnt-sing.jpg
http://veone.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/aerosmith_pump1.jpgAre they still in your media library?
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In case you are, and if you might be worried about space, you have used 29mb of the 3000mb. Lots of space left.
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Thank you all so much!
mrsbitch: Some from my computer, some from the net. In one post, the pics from my computer disappeared from Media library too. Put them again, still no effect.
jimmyleec: I will. I already did that with Windows Live on the last post, it seems it’s better but some pics appear and disappear.
1tess: no, they’re not there anymore. They were from my computer, some pics I took with the phone (so no copyright infringement either).
mark: I sometime delete pics when the are problems like: the caption won’t stay, the picture disappears etc -
Yes, that’s what I meant about the 404 error: they are not there.
Deleting a picture from your media library is not the same as deleting the picture from a post. If you delete it from a post, it will remain in your media library.
If you have trouble with a caption, don’t delete it from the media library.
Re-uploading the same picture should be up-loaded with a different name, or wordpress will do it for you. -
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The pic disppeared. So I tried to reload it and keep the caption: but the caption was gone too. So I deleted the whole pic and uploaded it again, also writing the caption again: now the pic can be seen, the caption can’t!!
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Also!, now the pic didn’t appear where I wanted it to be, but along other 4 pics down the page!! So I have to delete it form the Media library and download it AGAIN!
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Sorry, but I have to post another one! I deleted the pic from the Media library and download it again; this time it appeared where I wanted it to be. But it also appeared with the other 4 pics down the page!!
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Don’t delete a picture from the media library!
don’t delete a picture from the media library even if it did not act the way you wanted it to. Deleting a problem picture from a POST is like returning a book to your library.
Consider: When you decide you didn’t like the book from your local library, do you destroy the book? I just return mine. I might decide later, that it was a book I wanted to read.The caption “feature” on wp.com IS/ touchy. The best approach is to put your whole post together first without captions. When the post looks good, then go to the mountain icon to edit the picture: add your caption last.
The most accurate way to put an image where you want it is to add it while in the HTML editor. Even if that looks scary in HTML, you can look to see if the place you are adding the img is between a beginning and an ending tag:
<div> and </div> div means a division of block of code and /div means end of the div
<p> and </p>
<span> and </span>
You don’t want your image in between p and /p ethth
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The media library works JUST like a lending library. If you burn the books in the library, then when the readers want to see the books, they’re not there.
Honestly, I’d like to find the moron who’s running around telling people to delete images from the Media Library, and I’d like to strangle him.
And before you try to upload the pictures back (you will have to start from scratch for each one, there IS no shortcut) you will have to change the name of the file itself on your computer, and THEN upload it. And then put it in the appropriate post.
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Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me the picture management system is too complicated, when it should be simple. For example,
http://veone.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/si-lumea-imi-zice-mie-ca-fac-filme-proaste/
The first pic (at the half of the post) appears also with the other 4 (at the bottom of the post). If I delete it from the bottom group of pics, it will also disappear from the place where it’s alone (the half of the post, where I want it to be).
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In that case, you are not working with individual pictures: that would be a gallery.
The gallery feature will place all the images uploaded to a post into an array in your post. Those images are attached to that post, and the gallery will put all of those pictures into the array.
The only option we have with the gallery feature is that all pictures attached to the post will appear in the gallery.
If you want an image that won’t show in the gallery, then you must attach it to another post. Get it’s url and place it into the post.
Here is a pretty good discussion about the gallery feature:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-gallery-from-library?replies=12 -
OK, so that means you can’t have a gallery and separate pictures in a post? What’s the point of being able to have a gallery AND separate pics, if that means you CAN’T have a gallery AND separate pics?
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You can have a gallery AND separate pics in one post; you just cannot upload them to the same post. Read Tess’s last post again; or check the link she provided; or this:
http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/not-the-official-wordpresscom-gallery-faq/
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To clarify: uploading means transferring a copy of an image from your computer to a host (so that you get a web address for it). Totally unrelated to inserting in a post: you can upload an image to your blog without inserting it in any post; or you can upload it to an external host and insert it in a post; or you can upload it via a post but insert it in another post (which is what you need for the gallery-plus-independent-image combination).
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