Can Pictures be posted in Comments

“yes they can. its as simple as providing <img src=… in the comment content.”

No, they can’t. At least not without a plugin of some type or maybe some hacking of the core. I’ve just tried it and the image tag gets stripped off.

By default, only basic XHTML is allowed.

If you login, you can edit the comment and insert the image tag but I can’t get it to work via the public comment form.

(whoo is a her)

The operative as far as his option working seems to be that the picture is “hosted already” which I asume to mean that the image is alread in his database but used in another thread.

No, that’s probably not what she meant. Hosted already, to me, would mean that the image is on a webserver and can be linked (flickr, photobucket, your own site, etc.).

pizdin_dim,

I posted that image via a comment. The allowed tags within comments are clearly defined via a file (the name of which escapes me now).

Note that the OP said contributors and authors, also.

Tignarius, yes thats the operative phrase, “hosted somewhere” — I obviously can and did upload that pic prior to embedding it.

Im going to revisit this topic, since it came up again within another thread.

You do not need a plugin to allow images to be displayed within comments.

1. Crack open wp-includes/kses.php

Locate the following line:

$allowedtags = array ('a' => array ('href' => array (), 'title' => array ()), 'abbr' => array ('title' => array ()), 'acronym' => array ('title' => array ()), 'b' => array (), 'blockquote' => array ('cite' => array ()),

Edit that line to read, as follows:

$allowedtags = array ('a' => array ('href' => array (), 'title' => array ()), 'abbr' => array ('title' => array ()), 'acronym' => array ('title' => array ()), 'b' => array (), 'blockquote' => array ('cite' => array ()), 'img' => array ('alt' => array (), 'align' => array (), 'border' => array (), 'height' => array (), 'hspace' => array (), 'longdesc' => array (), 'vspace' => array (), 'src' => array ()),

Save the changed file, upload.

And as I stated earlier, the images MUST already be hosted somewhere. This does NOT address anyone being able to UPLOAD an image.

Can’t wait to see the fruits of your labor. It appears to me that flickr and photobucket are becoming the norm for hosting images where the user then has control to keep them available or not.