sidebar showing url but no photo in widget
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I just started a new blog and put the url for a photo into the text widget. No picture came up in the sidebar, and now the url for the picture is showing as text IN THE SIDEBAR of the site. Site is http://www.gransight.wordpress.com I have deleted widgets, logged out and on and then reestablished widgets. I have tried reading forum help questions. I have cleared my browser cache. Nothing has worked so far. Please help.
Gran -
It doesn’t work with the URL alone; you need to paste it with the html code for images:
<img src="URL_HERE"></a> -
But now I checked this URL and it gives me a 404-file-not-found response. Did you delete it from your media library or what?
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Yes I did delete it all hoping that it would disappear from the blogsite screen. Then I tried in a new widget, and thought I was following all the directions from how to put an image in a sidebar, but the picture would not go into the text widget. What should I do next? How do we get rid of that text on the webpage?
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I just uploaded it again, so maybe you can see it now. There is no <img src+ in front of the url on the ADD MEDIA window that I’ve been using to put pics onto my blog. ???? I’m going back and read again how to do this…what am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help you can give. I know a bit, but find I never know ENOUGH….
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@chezannette – consider linking your blog to your user name, as explained in the sticky at the top of the forum:
Go into your dashboard -> users -> your profile -> then scroll down to ‘contact info’. In the spot where it says ‘website’ fill in the address of your blog and save the changes.
Now… when you comment here and on other blogs, your name will link to your blog. If you do this before you post your request for help, it will allow forum volunteers to be able to help you quicker since they won’t have to ask you for a link and wait until you come back to post one.As for the photo – have you looked at the FAQ?
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I added those <img src…etc before the url and now the junk is gone from the website (or did YOU do that?) But no image went into the text widget. ?
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No we didn’t do that! We’re just fellow bloggers – only staff can do that.
But a little while ago I did see your photo, so congratulations, only it’s too large – use this variant to scale it down to proper size:
<img src="URL_HERE" width="160" /></a> -
Thank you Vivian and adam — I’ve updated the profile as you mentioned. I’ve tried putting the picture in by typing in <img src=http://gransight.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/blog-widget-gran-with-storm-and-paris6.jpg> first when I did this, I got a picture that was too big (I got excited and forgot to make it a thumbnail), so I deleted that. Now I have tried again, following the FAQ (as I thought I was doing before) and now that text is back on my website. :( I am missing something in this process.
Should I have to be doing the typing in, or should that <img and URL automatically hop into the text widget after I’ve uploaded on the Write page? -
I tried the things you suggested, panaghiotisadam, and it looks like a picture is ALMOST there, there is an icon but no picture. NOW what have I done wrong? :) :( When I just went back into the text widget to look at the url and see if I had typed it the way you told me, all the figures were gone except for the <img src …. so that’s why there’s no picture. But I still don’t know why it didn’t attach….????
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I can’t tell what you might have done wrong now that you deleted it again! This is one version of what you should have pasted:
<img src=http://gransight.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/blog-widget-gran-with-storm-and-paris6.jpg width=”160″>
But this doesn’t always work – that’s why my suggestion had a different close (a more surefire variant, not included in the FAQ, I think):
<img src=http://gransight.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/blog-widget-gran-with-storm-and-paris6.jpg width=”160″ />Another way to manage these things, if you find handling code awkward, is to upload the image AND INSERT it in a post,* then switch from visual to html editor, cut its complete code from there and paste in the widget.
* Possibly also edit it till it gets the way it must be: in the visual post editor, cliking on an image will bring up a mountain icon; clicking this you get to the image’s settings, where you can change its percentage as well as several other options.
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Oops, sorry, second code ends with the “a” tag, which didn’t show up now – see my 3:27 AM post.
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Pangahiotisadam — I got it !! Thank you so much !! I’m going to print off our conversation, so if I run into trouble again, I can refer to it. After I went away awhile and came back to it, I saw I could downsize the photo myself on photoshop (duh! didn’t think of that before). Then I went back in and tried all the code again, following what you gave me — and voila, there it is. My grandchildren will love it. And thank you again, so much, for putting up with me changing things and trying and trying again. Gran
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