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Our site is setup on a multi-column format yet previews are provided only in a single page display. The problem is one cannot accurately size jpgs in accordance to multi-column width in preview. The only option is to post and edit however many times necessary.
Because of conflicts in OS, software, and scripting it has been pointless to experiment in FTPing from off site.
Could there be a way to either manually or automatically set column width for preview to avoid the edits?
Willing to watch an Obama speech for a solution.
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Since you are linking to photos from around the internet (copyright issues not withstanding) you will simply have to play with the sizing.
If you were uploading the images to your blog and then inserting them into the posts, then wordpress would take care of that for you.
Also, there is no FTP access at wordpress.com.
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Also, when you insert images into your blog from off the internet, you are actually stealing bandwidth from the sites that host the images. Many of them do not like that at all. I’ve seen times when those hosting the image will change it to something completely NSFW (not safe for work) and then that image appears on your blog possibly embarrassing the heck out of you.
Just sayin’
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Thanks but our site is scripted. As such inserting must be totally manual. Bandwidth… issues are avoided by uploading to an outside server and reposting for future use.
The problem lies in preview for multi-column formats.
Like WP auto-format, image conversion software is unhelpful.
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“our site is scripted. As such inserting must be totally manual. Bandwidth… issues are avoided by uploading to an outside server and reposting for future use.”
YOUR bandwidth issues are avoided, but not their bandwidth issues. Someone killed my Photobucket account by hotlinking just as you are doing here. And as well, if you’d uploaded the images to WP.com you wouldn’t have to worry about bandwidth anyway. Like TSP said, the solution is to upload the images to WordPress.com.
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“The problem is one cannot accurately size jpgs in accordance to multi-column width”.
To accurately size your images you just need to know how wide your column content is: it’s 300px. If you want your thumbnails to occupy, say, half of the available width, you go to Settings>Media, set your Medium Size option to 150 Max Width and 0 Max Height, and select that option when inserting images. Or you can resize copies of the originals to 150px wide and upload those copies; this way you get better image quality too (images downsized by WP lose some color and sharpness).
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“YOUR bandwidth issues are avoided, but not their bandwidth issues. Someone killed”
Bandwidth… was used as a simple explanation to relate to the previous reply rather than detailing things which may not be understood by all. Also we do not use sites such as Flickr or PhotoB.
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“To accurately size your images you just need to know how wide your column…”
Because of scripting we are unable to use auto-format. Regarding height and width, even though column sizes are constant, jpg… and word length vary. Consider using a 736W image with 244H and a 14 letter word in the beginning portion of the paragraph next to it. Using 3 columns it must be a ballpark guess to post and cannot be modified until after viewing the URL. Sometimes not only must the dimensions be changes but the 14 letter word as well yet that cannot be known in preview.
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You do not understand. I was not saying you use external sites like Flickr. I was pointing out, as did TSP, that you are hotlinking from other sites and may cause THOSE sites to suffer as a result of your practice. It is extremely bad netiquette to do this.
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@burstupdates: Apparently you believe that all browsers and browser versions display your text the same way. They don’t.
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