Problem applying multiple settings to an image in post at once

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    astrbac · Member ·

    Hi all,

    I hav just set up a free account with WordPress at WordPress.com and am trying to put my blog together. In the posts I insert images from my Flickr account as I don’t want to upload twice and use my WordPress space.

    Normally, I click in the post where I wish to insert an image, chose INSERT from URL and click Insert. The image shows up both in the Post edit window as in my blog. Being too large for the theme I chose, I wish to re-size images and make them clickable links that open in new windows.

    I click an image in Post edit wind., chose ADVANCED SETTINGS tab and set size, desc., Likn rel and check the “Open in new window” box. Then I click UPDATE, and PUBLISH,.

    I view my blog in a separate browser and I click CTRL+F5 to refresh the page. Some settings take effect and some don’t (either it re-sizes the images but doesn’t turn it into a clickable link, or vice versa)…

    What seems to be the problem?
    Thank you in advance!
    Alex

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    To make the image link to the original, click “Link to Image” before inserting.

    The rest is faster (and more foolproof) if you switch the editor to html and modify the code (instead of clicking image, clicking edit button, clicking Advanced Settings etc).

    To make the link open in a new browser window or tab, you change this:
    <a href="URL HERE">
    to this:
    <a href="URL HERE" target="_blank">

    To downsize the displayed image, you change the width number and delete the height command. In the theme you’re using, maximum width for captioned images is 560.

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    astrbac · Member ·

    Hey, thanx for the reply!

    Hm… I don’t want to learn html to do my blogging, I would just like to stick with using a CP that WP offers. I know it’s not hard but I have many other things going on at the moment so another pc skill woudl really be too much.

    I’ll try and solve this somehow. THank you for takling the time to reply!

    CHeers

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