using an image more than once in same post doesn’t work with copy-paste?
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This is a minor issue that has bugged me over time.
I’ve had blog posts where I wanted to use the same images more than once in the same post. Ideally, I’d insert the image from my media library just once; and then copy and paste that image. This is in the Visual Editor. As this is all within wordpress, I would expect this to work without trouble.
However, what I found is that the pasted images do NOT show up in my blog. In this case, my post would show the inserted images correctly, and any copy-pasted duplicates only display the textual title.
So now I manually insert the image each time I need it in a post. It would be nice if I could copy, because the insertion is several more steps.
Is copy-paste of a wordpress-hosted image in the Visual Editor not supposed to work? Is there a way to do this without re-inserting the image more than once? Thanks.
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1. Switch to html editor and copy the code, then paste into the html editor of the other post.
2. You can do it via the visual editor if you open two browser windows: one with the picture, on with the post you want to paste it into. Each window should take up half your screen so you can see both of them at once. Select and drag image to its new place. (original image stays in its place)
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the photo had a code attached to it so it has to be copied in html editor , but i think you can only copy the code , i’ll be told if i’m wrong :(
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@ riftweaver
If you find html difficult to read, it’s easy to use your browser’s find feature to locate when the code for the picture you want. Note the title of the image you want to copy, use “find” to highlight one of the words or a sequence of numbers.
If the image is not linked to anything, you copy this:
<img class="HTML_CODE_SUTFFt" title="WHATEVER_TITLE_IT_IS" src="URL_OF_IMAGE" alt="" width="X" height="Y /> -
Partly. It’s easiest using the html but if that is too intimidating, one can use the two window visual editor method: select, drag, and drop method.
You might run into problems if you have complicated code, like tables, div or more tags, captions… But mostly that works well.
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(by the way, you can have two browser windows open to the same post, so you can drag the copied image to another location in the same post)
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Thanks for the replies.
To clarify, I’m pasting the image within the same post. Is there some quirk in word press editor that requires two windows?
I’m at home with code, and it would be faster to edit html than to redo the entire media selection process.
It just seems like one should be able to copy and paste an image within the same post. Perhaps this is a bug that i should report instead? The visual editor ought to be able to copy the html code under the hood t it doesn’t seen to.
Thanks!
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It can’t copy the image from a post that hasn’t been published yet. It can from one that has been. Just click to the HTML window and copy the code there and that will work.
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“… seems like one should be able to copy and paste an image within the same post.”
Yes, you should be able to do that. You should be able to select the image and use either the keyboard shortcut or the command from the file menu.Sorry, I thought you were asking about both different posts and the same post.
I usually use HTML as well, but when I first started it was intimidating so I relied on the Visual editor.
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Neither of the posts need be published. They can both be drafts, viewed in the visual editor.
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