Why won't my Picasa images stay in my blog posts?
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When I copy images from my Public Picasa albums, they keep disappearing. Here’s a recent example (http://laurasalas.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/eyes/), but it’s happened a number of times before, too. My Picasa album is marked Public, and this has happened both with Copy and Paste and also with insert by url. Can anybody help? Do Picasa and WordPress just not play nicely together?
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Picasa is a no-go here as it requires flash, and flash is not allowed due to security concerns.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-picasa-album-to-my-blog?replies=6 -
@TT: First, flash objects can be embedded. Second, Picasa images are images, they aren’t flash.
@LS: I just inserted an image from my Picasa album via URL – no issues. Could you please link to the Picasa page that has the image you tried to insert in the post you linked to?
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Sure…here’s the Picasa album I copied an image from: https://picasaweb.google.com/101215105358894074741/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCJTtl7fFo9WoyQE#
I should have also said that the images show up fine at first. It’s just that they disappear after a week or two. And not all of them do that.
Thanks for any advice or help! I’m not very Picasa-savvy, but one of the main reasons I use it at all is to easily store images for my blog, so it’s so frustrating that random ones disappear (but some seem to stay up permanently!).
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Above is the album–here’s the link to the specific page for the image that disappeared most recently: https://picasaweb.google.com/101215105358894074741/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCJTtl7fFo9WoyQE#5774271764458061698
Thanks!
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In the post “Redness” you’ve used this URL to insert the image:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4i5xKxf3CRY/UBBDflhi2YI/AAAAAAAAA2I/iI09MWW8kqE/s320/photo.JPG
That’s the right URL, and the image shows up.
But in the post “Eyes” the URLS don’t match; you’ve used this one:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pJlvtvtAk_M/UCJVZ6SBi6I/AAAAAAAAA3M/mpVJkNtE5ig/s640/photo.JPG
while the current URL of the image is this:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9_g5KgqySv0/UCJVk40XP4I/AAAAAAAAA3c/rySvjhmnzCQ/s640/photo.JPG
Same thing with the other two missing images I checked.But I can’t tell why this is so: I don’t know if you originally picked an inappropriate URL in those cases or if Picasa occasionally relocate images (so their URLs get changed).
“I’m not very Picasa-savvy, but one of the main reasons I use it at all is to easily store images for my blog”.
In general that’s not good practice – as you found out! When you insert images hosted elsewhere, you run the risk of a no show if the other site is down or if it takes too long to load or if a file gets removed or relocated, plus your blog takes longer to load. I don’t see why you chose to do that instead of uploading your images to your blog, or why you think it’s easier. -
Thanks, justpi, for the information. The missing images always showed up for a week or two, so I’m thinking maybe Picasa images migrate now and then (which seems very weird to me).
The reason I want to use Picasa for my blog images is that I take my pics on my phone, and I can email them easily to Picasa, which is where I also store pics to share with family. I hate having to upload pics from my phone to my laptop just for my blog. When I upload via cable, I usually do it directly to my external hard drive without saving them on my laptop proper. And that’s usually large batches, not the one or two images a week I need for my blog.
I thought it would be simpler to use Picasa for both those purposes (family and blog pics). I hate having so many different processes for my various images and I store my business-related pics in a totally different way–it all just gets confusing. But I guess I’d better go figure out if/how I can email pics directly to some kind of wordpress library for my blog.
Thanks!
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You might try reading through this:
http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66969&topic=1689863&ctx=topic
Especially the part about embedding images to your website.
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